The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains - Page 2

Kasper Hviid · 06-05-2014, 02:09 PM

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.

Kasper Hviid · 06-08-2014, 06:26 AM

... So, I really like that book. But the author fails on his take on e-readers, a subject he doesn't seem to know much about. He don't seem to grasp that people actually uses this devices to read books. However, he is correct that some e-readers aims to give a more internet-like experience. My own Kobo, for instance, has a feature to post quotes on Facebook, and it even got 'archivements, one of the most pathetic features of modern gaming.

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
Other Non-Fiction Chesterton, G K: The Well and the Shallows, v1, 8 February 2010.	Patricia	Kindle Books	2	02-07-2010 10:38 PM
Other Non-Fiction Chesterton, G K: The Well and the Shallows, LIT v1, 8 February 2010.	Patricia	Other Books	0	02-07-2010 10:05 PM
Other Non-Fiction Chesterton, G K: The Well and the Shallows, v1, 8 February 2010.	Patricia	IMP Books	0	02-07-2010 10:03 PM
Other Non-Fiction Chesterton, G K: The Well and the Shallows, v1, 8 February 2010.	Patricia	BBeB/LRF Books	0	02-07-2010 10:01 PM
What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains	taglines	Lounge	26	01-27-2010 04:23 AM

06-05-2014, 02:09 PM	#16
Kasper Hviid Zealot Posts: 141 Karma: 2784614 Join Date: Nov 2012 Device: none	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.

06-08-2014, 06:26 AM	#17
Kasper Hviid Zealot Posts: 141 Karma: 2784614 Join Date: Nov 2012 Device: none	... So, I really like that book. But the author fails on his take on e-readers, a subject he doesn't seem to know much about. He don't seem to grasp that people actually uses this devices to read books. However, he is correct that some e-readers aims to give a more internet-like experience. My own Kobo, for instance, has a feature to post quotes on Facebook, and it even got 'archivements, one of the most pathetic features of modern gaming.

Advert