Nicholas Carr

The Shallows

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  • Елена Кукваhas quoted6 years ago
    My life, like the lives of most Baby Boomers and Generation Xers, has unfolded like a two-act play. It opened with Analogue Youth and then, after a quick but thorough shuffling of the props, it entered Digital Adulthood.
  • b2591720825has quoted7 years ago
    Virtually all of our neural circuits—whether they’re involved in feeling, seeing, hearing, moving, thinking, learning, perceiving, or remembering— are subject to change
  • Elza Holthas quoted2 years ago
    dumbing down” of culture
  • Elza Holthas quoted2 years ago
    with the former heralding a new golden age of access and participation and the latter bemoaning a new dark age of mediocrity and narcissism
  • Elza Holthas quoted2 years ago
    dumbing down” of culture
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted3 years ago
    Spurred by the need for temporal exactitude, monks took the lead in pushing forward the technologies of timekeeping. It was in the monastery that the first mechanical clocks were assembled, their movements governed by the swinging of weights, and it was the bells in the church tower that first sounded the hours by which people would come to parcel out their lives.
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted3 years ago
    It was no longer enough for every town or parish to follow its own clock. Now, time had to be the same everywhere—or else commerce and industry would falter.
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted3 years ago
    The intellectual process of transforming experience in space to abstraction of space is a revolution in modes of thinking,” writes Virga.2
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted3 years ago
    There was no particular need to measure time with precision or to break a day up into little pieces. For most people, the movements of the sun, the moon, and the stars provided the only clocks they needed. Life was, in the words of the French medievalist Jacques Le Goff, “dominated by agrarian rhythms, free of haste, careless of exactitude, unconcerned by productivity
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted3 years ago
    Our intellectual maturation as individuals can be traced through the way we draw pictures, or maps, of our surroundings. We begin with primitive, literal renderings of the features of the land we see around us, and we advance to ever more accurate, and more abstract, representations of geographic and topographic space. We progress, in other words, from drawing what we see to drawing what we know
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