The Web, Our Brains, and You
I recently had the chance to read The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. The author of this 2010 book is Nicholas Carr, who originally penned a 2008 article for The Atlantic entitled, “Is Google making us stupid?” The title of that article can be off-putting to those who are, like myself, steeped in the hot bath of the digital universe. Surely this is some Luddite ranting, one might think at first. But on second glance … 200 pages of ranting? Unlikely. It might be because I conducted the vast majority of my schooling and created many of...
