![]() ![]() ![]() It is a patient and rewarding popularization of some of the research being done at the frontiers of brain science. Highly recommended., The subtitle of Nicholas Carr's The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains leads one to expect a polemic in the tradition of those published in the 1950s about how rock 'n' roll was corrupting the nation's youth. ![]() His fantastic investigation of the effect of the Internet on our neurological selves concludes with a very humanistic petition for balancing our human and computer interactions. Carr's analysis incorporates a wealth of neuroscience and other research, as well as philosophy, science, history and cultural developments. Carr provides a deep, enlightening examination of how the Internet influences the brain and its neural pathways. ![]()
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