Nicholas G. Carr Quotes
I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way we think.
The book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind in the way our habits of mind and ultimately the way we use our brains.
A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin.
We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.
I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.
I think that the book in some ways is the most interesting from our own present standpoint, particularly when we want to think about the way the internet is changing us.
In popular books and articles, information technology writer Carr has worried over the ways that algorithms like those employed by Google are reshaping the ways we think.
The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.
I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.
When somebody's talking to us, they're not putting pauses - carefully putting pauses between words. It all flows together. The problem with that though, it's very hard to read.
I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery.
A wise and clear-eyed book, Future Hype challenges the conventional wisdom about technological change and provides a fresh perspective on our so-called computer age.