Nicholas Carr The Shallows
In Nicholas Carr’s book The Shallows, he talks about many things, including the titular topic of What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. He relates the story of the development of the written word, and the book, and the computer, and then the Internet, telling how the advent of each sparked a revolution in our culture, and, in the case of the internet, in the way we think, going on to say that “Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a jet ski.” (Carr, 7) due to his interactions with the internet. He provides a story that could give an answer to the question we’ve been asking. How is the exponential increase of information that we process in all forms of media affecting the way we live? In