Nicholas G. Carr Quotes
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We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.
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A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin.
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I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.
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The Internet, like all intellectual technologies has a trade off. As we train our brains to use it, as we adapt to the environment of the internet, which is an environment of kind of constant immersion and information and constant distractions, interruptions, juggling lots of messages, lots of bits of information.
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I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery.
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All reading was done in the early years out loud, there was no such thing as silent reading because you had to read out loud in order to figure out you know, where was a word ending and where is the word beginning.
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The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.
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I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.