The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
- ISBN-10
- 0393072223
- ISBN-13
- 9780393072228
- Series
- The Shallows
- Category
- Computers
- Pages
- 276
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Nicholas G. Carr
Description
Expanding on an article that appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the best-selling author of The Big Switch discusses the intellectual and cultural consequences of the Internet, and how it may be transforming our neural pathways for the worse.
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