The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains Audiobook (Free)

“Is Google building us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that query within an Atlantic Once a month cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiousness about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized perhaps one of the most important debates of our period: once we benefit from the Internet’s bounties, are we sacrificing our capability to read and believe deeply?

Right now, Carr expands his debate into the most powerful exploration yet published from the Internet’s intellectual and cultural effects. Weaving insights from school of thought, neuroscience, and history into a rich narrative, The Shallows points out how the Internet is normally rerouting our neural pathways, replacing the subtle mind of the reserve reader with the distracted mind from the display watcher. A gripping tale of human change performed out against a backdrop of technological upheaval, The Shallows will permanently alter just how we think about mass media and our minds.