Key insights from
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
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12 minute read
Published Mar 3, 2020
What you'll learn
Whether you think the internet is ushering in an intellectual apocalypse or simply making daily tasks easier and information more accessible, no one can deny its influence. Like the many innovations that came before it—including the map, the clock, the scroll, and even the book—the internet has proven immensely useful and quietly powerful. Writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Nicolas Carr reveals the truth behind our screens in his book, The Shallows. Drawing upon history, neuroscience, and cultural research, Carr proves the internet isn’t a static repository of information, but an active agent in the remaking of the human brain—whether its users like it or not.
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 The structure of the internet is instructive for your brain.
- 2 Our brains never stood a chance against the sway of the internet—change is bound up in our neuroplasticity.
- 3 Your brain may want to curl up with a computer, but you should probably choose a book instead.
- 4 Your mind is doing too much, and the internet ensures it won’t remember any of it.
- 5 You are more than a URL.
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