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• Title:The shallows : what the Internet is doing to our brains / Nicholas Carr.
  
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• Author/Creator:Carr, Nicholas G., 1959-
  
• Published/Created:New York : W.W. Norton, ©2010.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: WL340 .C366 2010
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    

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  • Call Number: QP360 .C3667 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Neuropsychology.
  Internet--Physiological effect.
  Internet--Psychological aspects.
  
• Medical Subjects: Brain--physiology.
  Internet.
  Cognition.
  
• Edition:1st ed.
  
• Description:viii, 276 pages ; 25 cm.
  
• Summary:As we enjoy the Internet's bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? Carr describes how human thought has been shaped through the centuries by "tools of the mind"--from the alphabet to maps, to the printing press, the clock, and the computer--and interweaves recent discoveries in neuroscience. Now, he expands his argument into a compelling exploration of the Internet's intellectual and cultural consequences. Our brains, scientific evidence reveals, change in response to our experiences. Building on insights of thinkers from Plato to McLuhan, Carr makes a case that every information technology carries a set of assumptions about the nature of knowledge and intelligence. The printed book served to focus our attention, promoting deep and creative thought. In contrast, the Internet encourages rapid, distracted sampling of small bits of information. As we become ever more adept at scanning and skimming, are we losing our capacity for concentration, contemplation, and reflection?--From publisher description.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780393072228 (hardcover)
  0393072223 (hardcover)
  
• Contents:Prologue: The watchdog and the thief
  Hal and me
  The vital paths
  On what the brain thinks about when it thinks about itself
  Tools of the mind
  The deepening page
  On Lee de Forest and his amazing audion
  A medium of the most general nature
  The very image of a book
  The juggler's brain
  On the buoyancy of IQ scores
  The church of Google
  Search, memory
  On the writing of this book
  A thing like me
  Human elements.