The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
Reviewed by Edward Tenner
The Wilson Quarterly
Two recent books on the future of media go against the grain of their authors' professions. Nicholas Carr is a journalist who has written mostly for business and technology publications but has courageously challenged some of his readers' most cherished assumptions. In Does IT Matter? (2004), he argued that the transformative power of corporate computing is overrated. In The Shallows he goes further, questioning the faith of many computer industry leaders that the Web can enhance thinking and accelerate learning.
Clay Shirky, on the other hand, is a tenured professor at a major private...
Reviewed by Edward Tenner
The Wilson Quarterly
Two recent books on the future of media go against the grain of their authors' professions. Nicholas Carr is a journalist who has written mostly for business and technology publications but has courageously challenged some of his readers' most cherished assumptions. In Does IT Matter? (2004), he argued that the transformative power of corporate computing is overrated. In The Shallows he goes further, questioning the faith of many computer industry leaders that the Web can enhance thinking and accelerate learning.
Clay Shirky, on the other hand, is a tenured professor at a major private...