Just finished reading The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr. An interesting book, heavily cited and thought provoking. 100% worth reading!
My favorite three quotes from this book are
“Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.”
― Nicholas G. Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
“The bond between a book reader and a book writer has always been a symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization. The words of the writer act as a catalyst in the mind of the reader, inspiring new insights, associations, and perceptions, sometimes, even epiphanies. And the very existence of the attentive, critical reader provides the spur for the writer’s work. It gives the author the confidence to explore new forms of expression, to blaze difficult and demanding paths of thought, to venture into uncharted and sometimes hazardous territory.”
― Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
“… research continues to show that people who read linear text comprehend more, remember more, and learn more than those who read text peppered with links.”
― Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
Started Reading – 18 December 2022
Finished Reading – 2 January 2023
P.S. I’d like to learn more about neuroscience and linguistics. I’ve made a list of books on these subjects to get started. My next read will be The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence W. Deacon.
