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The Internet is rewiring our brains
Researcher and author Nicholas Carr has written extensively about the way the Web is rewiring our brains so that we cannot concentrate on longer-lasting tasks such as reading a book.
His new book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains has just been released in US, and publishes in UK 1 September. He himself has obviously retained sufficient concentration to write a 276-page closely-argued study, and maintain an interesting blog Rough Type! It’s getting good reviews, and provides much food for thought. “Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind,” says one reviewer.
Of course, the broader changes to the culture wrought by digital media have been discussed by Christian books such as Flickering Pixels and The Millennium Matrix. Now Carr is looking at how these changes are being outworked in our brains. His conclusions are certainly worth discussing.
Dr Quentin Schultz of Calvin College has also written on related issues: check his blog Communicating Faithfully.
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