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The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains

Nicholas Carr

Every technology is a way of imposing our power and control over nature, over time and distance, and over each other.

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There are basically 4 categories of technology.

1. the plow, the darning needle, the fighter jet, extend our physical strength

2. the microscope, amplifier, geiger counter, extend our senses

3. reservoirs, birth control pills, GM corn reshape nature

4. the map, the clock extend our mental powers - the typewriter, the abacus, slide rule, book, newspaper the library and the internet - these are all intellectual technologies.

Intell techs promote new ways of thinking - rearrange assumptions on which we build our beliefs and aims.

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This book is an expansion of an Atlantic article Carr wrote

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