get PDF The Shallows What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains | The best selling author of The Big Switch returns with an explosive look at technologys effect on the mindIs Google making us stupid When Nicholas Carr posed that question in an Atlantic Monthly cover story he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the internet is changing us He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time As we enjoy the internets bounties are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeplyNow Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration yet published of the internets intellectual and cuural consequences Weaving insights from philosophy neuroscience and history into a rich narrative The Shallows explains how the internet is rerouting our neural pathways replacing the subtle mind of the book reader with the distracted mind of the screen watcher A gripping story of human transformation played out against a backdrop of technological upheaval The Shallows will forever aer the way we think about media and our minds