The Shallows

Nicholas Carr is the author of The Shallows, The Big Switch, and Does IT Matter? He has written for the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Wired, and other periodicals. He lives in Colorado with his wife.

出版者:W. W. Norton & Company

作者:Nicholas Carr

页数:276

出版时间:2010-6-15

价格:USD 26.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780393072228

图书标签:互联网思维传媒media英文原版InternetInternet,科学

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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.

读后感

6月写的英文版图书书介，中文版出的好快。 《The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains》 作者：Nicholas Carr 尼古拉斯・卡尔 出版：W. W. Norton & Company 出版年：2010-06-07 怀疑论主义者苏格拉底，大概是历史上最早一位提出对技术要怀有戒惧之心的人...  

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我们看到过以下的画面吧：手中在处理着工作的表格，电脑右下角的QQ在不停的闪，微博里同时有人@你了，在人人网发表的图片又有人评论了，刚好邮件提醒告诉你有新邮件来了，傍边的手机还在不停的震：因为微信群里面又有新消息了。各种信息载体同一时间，从四面八方向我们扑过来。...  

你将要读到的文章，跟几乎卫报所有的内容一样——你可能已经猜出来了——是一台联网的电脑打出来的。显然，电脑和网络使我的调查相对轻松，与文章提到的人物沟通更简单，除此之外没有其他好处了。现在人们对现代通信技术的使用是如此熟稔，以至于完全没有新鲜感。但让我记忆犹...  

惊心动魄的一本书！！（本书颇有点罗嗦，不过也许，这是作者观点的见证，人们已经失去了读长篇大论的能力） 作者一上来就用实验数据来证明了，synapses 是用进废退的。经常锻炼使用的大脑功能会越发加强，不经常使用的慢慢退化消失。 网络，电脑，有着太多的distraction，每秒...  

用户评价

via jeff 思考就是对思考形式和思考内容的控制，这种控制权应该留给自己，而不是留给机器和互联网。

well-researched and quite thought-provoking, provided great introductory information for a variety of fields relating to cognition and information technology

well-researched and quite thought-provoking, provided great introductory information for a variety of fields relating to cognition and information technology

三星半。不是没有养分，但一个五星的杂志长文还是不要各种延伸比较好些

一年前推荐过Atlantic上的一篇文章: Is Google Making Us Stupid? 这篇文章当时被广为讨论，西方人习惯见好就成书，于是作者Nicholas把同一话题写成了这本The Shallows. 无论是这本书还是早先那篇文章，我都相当喜欢，科技生活对大脑、思维、智力、注意力、创造力以及认知心理的影响是一个被广为讨论的有趣话题，Nicholas援引了很多相关研究，写得很扎实，值得一读！