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Quality
It’s an interesting read which prompts us to question our interaction with the net
I have first hand experience with the effects on a child of web surfing
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Using the internet makes it quick and easy to find fast answers to pressing questions and everyday inquiries
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It is not for specialists but the interested amateur imho
Carr documents both the value and dangers that technology and the internet have brought to the modern world
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- This product had a total of 1,450 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 8 2021.
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Includes the history of writing the science of cognition and memory and of course why and how the internet is f g up our brains
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Indeed because we cannot form deep common memories he concludes it might even be undermining our culture
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According to carr the internet with all its notifications links and bells and whistles disrupting the readers concentration represents a fundamental departure from the deep reading that is possible only through books
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There are a number of dire consequences
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Beyond breaking the longterm attention that careful thinking requires what is read is more difficult to get into longterm memory a requirement of learning with so many things filling shortterm or working memory while on the internet they get pushed out as the reader is continually bombarded with stimuli
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Moreover storing memory outside the human mind in a hard drive is no substitute as memory in the brain is a living phenomenon that evolves along with experience particularly physical whereas silicon memory never varies if new ideas and facts do not make it into the longterm memory they cannot be employed in creative syntheses
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I knew a lot of the history and science so found much of it elementary say at the undergraduate level
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The author gives a stupendous background history of the developments in communication before the net
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