Nicholas Carr Quotes

It's the new technologies that govern production and consumption, that guide people's behavior and shape their perceptions.

anti-intellectual

There is no economic law that says that everyone, or even most people, automatically benefit from technological progress.

Concordances. But here, too, the effects are different. As

In the YouTube economy, everyone is free to play, but only a few reap the rewards.

Try reading a book while doing a crossword puzzle; that's the intellectual environment of the Internet. BACK

THE TROUBLE with automation is that it often gives us what we don't need at the cost of what we do.

The value of a well-made and well-used tool lies not only in what it produces for us but what it produces in us.

He's not seeking some greater truth beyond the work. The work is the truth.

Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.

We become, neurologically, what we think."(33)

The experiment suggested a strong correlation "between the number of links and disorientation or cognitive overload," wrote Zhu.

All technological change is generational change.

The more you multitask, the less deliberative you become; the less able to think and reason out a problem.

A drawn line can be many things," he says, whereas a digitized line has to be just one thing.27

Our brains turn into simple signal-processing units, quickly shepherding information into consciousness and then back out again.

Whenever we turn on our computer, we are plunged into an ecosystem of interruption technologies,

Between the intellectual and behavioral guardrails set by our genetic code, the

The brighter the software, the dimmer the user.

When our brain is overtaxed, we find distractions more distracting.

The connection between doing and knowing is breaking down.