Nicholas G. Carr Quotes

United States, Writer
January 7, 1959

icholas G. Carr is an American writer who has published books and articles on technology, business, and culture. His book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.

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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- Thinking
- Book
- Uses
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.

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- Story
- Read
- Focusing

We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.

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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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- Reading
- Beginning
- Ending
A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin.

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- Energy
- Word
- Begin
It's interesting to think about how the book changed us.

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- Book
- Think
- Changed
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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We become, neurologically, what we think.

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- Think
- Become
The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.

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