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The shallows : what the Internet is doing to our brains / Nicholas Carr.
Publication details: New York : W.W. Norton, c2011.Edition: Norton pbk. [ed.]Description: viii, 280 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780393339758
- 0393339750
- QP360 .C3667 2011
Contents:
Summary: Discusses the intellectual and cultural consequences of the Internet, and how it may be transforming our neural pathways for the worse.
Prologue: The watchdog and the thief -- Hal and me -- The vital paths -- A digression : on what the brain thinks about when it thinks about itself -- Tools of the mind -- The deepening page -- A digression : on lee de forest and his amazing audion -- A medium of the most general nature -- The very image of a book -- The juggler's brain -- A digression : on the buoyancy of IQ scores -- The church of Google -- Search, memory -- A digression : on the writing of this book -- A thing like me -- Epilogue: Human elements.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | QP 360 .C3667 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5152069 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-260) and index.
Prologue: The watchdog and the thief -- Hal and me -- The vital paths -- A digression : on what the brain thinks about when it thinks about itself -- Tools of the mind -- The deepening page -- A digression : on lee de forest and his amazing audion -- A medium of the most general nature -- The very image of a book -- The juggler's brain -- A digression : on the buoyancy of IQ scores -- The church of Google -- Search, memory -- A digression : on the writing of this book -- A thing like me -- Epilogue: Human elements.
Discusses the intellectual and cultural consequences of the Internet, and how it may be transforming our neural pathways for the worse.
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