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I was surfing around and discovered this old thread. I just wanted to say that THE SHALLOWS is a must read, both well written and with lots of info. I had for several years been on the lookout for a book about the effect computer use had on the human brain, and when I found this one, I swallowed it in a couple of days. The author draws on a lot of different sources - his own life, chatterbots, the invention of litterature, Nietzsche, Google - so the book changes focus a lot, making it kinda fragmented; nevertheless, it all fits together as a whole. Also, while he paint a bleak picture of the digital future, he also acknowledes the advantages of the digital posibilities. For instance, he mentions that surfing the web requires more power of the brain than reading a book.
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