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"The Net seizes our attention only to scatter it ... We become mindless consumers of data, our deep-reading and contemplative faculties atrophying."
Source
Nicholas Carr — The Shallows
Carr, The Shallows (2010)
Author
Nicholas Carr
Date
2010
Credibility & evidentiary value

Argument that digital media reshape cognition toward distraction. The neuroscience is suggestive, not settled; the lived observation resonates widely.

Citation · Chicago

Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010).

Used in topics
Scholarly SynthesisThe Attention Economy and Your DopamineSpeculative HypothesisThe Alignment Problem & the Paperclip MaximizerSpeculative HypothesisThe 'Dead Internet' Hypothesis
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