The Shallows, by Nicholas Carr - Chapter 07: The Juggler's Brain [Audiobook]
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“Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated 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 Net’s bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply?
Now, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the Internet’s intellectual and cultural consequences yet published. As he describes how human thought has been shaped through the centuries by “tools of the mind”―from the alphabet to maps, to the printing press, the clock, and the computer―Carr interweaves a fascinating account of recent discoveries in neuroscience by such pioneers as Michael Merzenich and Eric Kandel. Our brains, the historical and scientific evidence reveals, change in response to our experiences. The technologies we use to find, store, and share information can literally reroute our neural pathways.
Building on the insights of thinkers from Plato to McLuhan, Carr makes a convincing case that every information technology carries an intellectual ethic―a set of assumptions about the nature of knowledge and intelligence. He explains how the printed book served to focus our attention, promoting deep and creative thought. In stark contrast, the Internet encourages the rapid, distracted sampling of small bits of information from many sources. Its ethic is that of the industrialist, an ethic of speed and efficiency, of optimized production and consumption―and now the Net is remaking us in its own image. We are becoming ever more adept at scanning and skimming, but what we are losing is our capacity for concentration, contemplation, and reflection.
Part intellectual history, part popular science, and part cultural criticism, The Shallows sparkles with memorable vignettes―Friedrich Nietzsche wrestling with a typewriter, Sigmund Freud dissecting the brains of sea creatures, Nathaniel Hawthorne contemplating the thunderous approach of a steam locomotive―even as it plumbs profound questions about the state of our modern psyche. This is a book that will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds.
Hey everyone, there is an audio gap around 5:00-7:00. Sorry about that! I will fix this and upload a new one as soon as I get a chance
2:01 The Internet is basically optimzed for brain alteration
4:33 - 6:55 Gap in the recording
7:11 Internet use Paradox: Internet seizes our attention only to scatter it
10:03 Michael Merzenich: brains are massively remodeled by Internet exposure.
11:23 Neurons that don’t fire together don’t wire together: they break apart
12:09 Gary Small on brain change
15:51 Deep reading in the Internet is not possible, because of decision making and navigation
17:20 Net-users vs book-readers: computer=more stimulating, but the value is in beeing less-stimulated (Steven Johnson)
18:27 John Sweller about the types of memory
20:16 Our intellectual capacities are dependent on the quality and depth of the schemas that are built out of snippets of information taht made it into long-term-memory
22:04 Regular Reading is a like a drip of information into your longterm-memory
22:33 Internet is LIKE A FLOOD of information that flows BY your longterm-memory (Cognitive Overload)
24:07 Cognitive Overload is what Internet-users suffer from.
- At this point I decided to take a break from further reading this book. I will apply what I learned here and reread some passagages in the next days... let it drip in :D
Another thought: Listening to this book instead of reading it, is also more likely to flood your brain and make you forget what you have listend to.
I listened to this nice chapter about books while preparing dinner
I appreciate this so much, even with the tiny glitch. Thank you
Sorry to make a complaint about something you're providing for free, but there was indeed no audio between 5:00-7:00^^
and thank you for this resource + your hard work!
thanks for letting me know. I'll fix it soon!
No audio for about 2 minutes between ~5 and ~7 minutes :(
thank you for letting me know!