![]() ![]() The Shallows is a rebuttal to those who unquestioningly accept a life in which information is unlimited, easily accessed but fractured and unmoored from context, and where people are constantly online and multitasking among e-mail, Facebook and websites. Yet Carr wants us to know what we're losing in exchange for our dynamic, interconnected, Internet-fueled world. ![]() Devices such as Wi-Fi-equipped DVD players that allow people to stream music, movies and YouTube videos through their entertainment systems … well, "I have to confess: It's cool," he writes. Social networking, blogging - he's embraced it. The former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review and author of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, Carr has been, and still is, very much taken with technology, going all the way back to the first Apple home computers. Nicholas Carr wants you to know he's not a Luddite. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains ![]()
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