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ALSO  BY  NICHOLAS  CARR The  Big  Switch:  Rewiring  the  World,  from  Edison  to  Google Does  IT  Macer?
THE  SHALLOWS What  the  Internet  Is  Doing  to  Our  Brains NICHOLAS  CARR W.  W.  NORTON  &  COMPANY New  York  *  London Copyright  ©  2010  by  Nicholas  Carr All  rights  reserved
“The  wribng  ball  is  a  thing  like  me…”  from  Gramophone,  Film,  Typewriter  by   Friedrich  A.  Kicler,  translated  by  Geoffrey  Winthrop-­‐Young  and  Michael  Wutz.   Copyright  ©  1996  by  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Jr.  University  for   translabon;  ©  1986  by  Brinkmann  and  Bose.  All  rights  reserved.  Used  with  the   permission  of  Stanford  University  Press,  www.sup.org. “The  House  Was  Quiet  and  the  World  Was  Calm,”  copyright  1947  by  Wallace   Stevens,  from  The  Collected  Poems  of  Wallace  Stevens  by  Wallace  Stevens.  Used  by   permission  of  Alfred  A.  Knopf,  a  division  of  Random  House,  Inc. For  informabon  about  permission  to  reproduce  selecbons  from  this  book,  write  to   Permissions,  W.  W.  Norton  &  Company,  Inc.,  500  FiNh  Avenue,  New  York,  NY  10110 Library  of  Congress  Cataloging-­‐in-­‐Publicabon  Data Carr,  Nicholas  G.,  1959–  The  shallows:  what  the  Internet  is  doing  to  our   brains/Nicholas  Carr.—1st  ed.  p.  cm.  Includes  bibliographical  references.  ISBN:  978-­‐ 0-­‐393-­‐07936-­‐4  1.  Neuropsychology.  2.  Internet—Physiological  effect.  3.  Internet— Psychological  aspects.  I.  Title.  QP360.C3667  2010  612.80285—dc22 2010007639 W.  W.  Norton  &  Company,  Inc.  500  FiNh  Avenue,  New  York,  N.Y.   10110www.wwnorton.com W.  W.  Norton  &  Company  Ltd.  Castle  House,  75/76  Wells  Street,  London  W1T  3QT
to  my  mother and  in  memory  of  my  father
Contents Prologue THE  WATCHDOG  AND  THE  THIEF One HAL  AND  ME Two THE  VITAL  PATHS a  digression on  what  the  brain  thinks  about  when  it  thinks  about  itself Three TOOLS  OF  THE  MIND Four THE  DEEPENING  PAGE a  digression on  lee  de  forest  and  his  amazing  audion Five A  MEDIUM  OF  THE  MOST  GENERAL  NATURE Six THE  VERY  IMAGE  OF  A  BOOK Seven
THE  JUGGLER’S  BRAIN a  digression on  the  buoyancy  of  IQ  scores Eight THE  CHURCH  OF  GOOGLE Nine SEARCH,  MEMORY a  digression on  the  wribng  of  this  book Ten A  THING  LIKE  ME Epilogue HUMAN  ELEMENTS Notes Further  Reading Acknowledgments And  in  the  midst  of  this  wide  quietness A  rosy  sanctuary  will  I  dress With  the  wreath’d  trellis  of  a  working  brain… —JOHN  KEATS,  “Ode  to  Psyche”
THE  SHALLOWS Prologue THE  WATCHDOG  AND  THE  THIEF In  1964,  just  as  the  Beatles  were  launching  their  invasion  of  America’s  airwaves,   Marshall  McLuhan  published  Understanding  Media:  The  Extensions  of  Man  and   transformed  himself  from  an  obscure  academic  into  a  star.  Oracular,  gnomic,  and   mind-­‐bending,  the  book  was  a  perfect  product  of  the  sixbes,  that  now-­‐distant   decade  of  acid  trips  and  moon  shots,  inner  and  outer  voyaging.  Understanding   Media  was  at  heart  a  prophecy,  and  what  it  prophesied  was  the  dissolubon  of  the   linear  mind.  McLuhan  declared  that  the  “electric  media”  of  the  twenbeth  century— telephone,  radio,  movies,  television—were  breaking  the  tyranny  of  text  over  our   thoughts  and  senses.  Our  isolated,  fragmented  selves,  locked  for  centuries  in  the   private  reading  of  printed  pages,  were  becoming  whole  again,  merging  into  the   global  equivalent  of  a  tribal  village.  We  were  approaching  “the  technological   simulabon  of  consciousness,  when  the  creabve  process  of  knowing  will  be   collecbvely  and  corporately  extended  to  the  whole  of  human  society.”1 Even  at  the  crest  of  its  fame,  Understanding  Media  was  a  book  more  talked  about   than  read.  Today  it  has  become  a  cultural  relic,  consigned  to  media  studies  courses   in  universibes.  But  McLuhan,  as  much  a  showman  as  a  scholar,  was  a  master  at   turning  phrases,  and  one  of  them,  sprung  from  the  pages  of  the  book,  lives  on  as  a   popular  saying:  “The  medium  is  the  message.”  What’s  been  forgocen  in  our   repebbon  of  this  enigmabc  aphorism  is  that  McLuhan  was  not  just  acknowledging,   and  celebrabng,  the  transformabve  power  of  new  communicabon  technologies.  He   was  also  sounding  a  warning  about  the  threat  the  power  poses—and  the  risk  of   being  oblivious  to  that  threat.  “The  electric  technology  is  within  the  gates,”  he   wrote,  “and  we  are  numb,  deaf,  blind  and  mute  about  its  encounter  with  the   Gutenberg  technology,  on  and  through  which  the  American  way  of  life  was   formed.”2 McLuhan  understood  that  whenever  a  new  medium  comes  along,  people  naturally   get  caught  up  in  the  informabon—the  “content”—it  carries.  They  care  about  the   news  in  the  newspaper,  the  music  on  the  radio,  the  shows  on  the  TV,  the  words   spoken  by  the  person  on  the  far  end  of  the  phone  line.  The  technology  of  the   medium,  however  astonishing  it  may  be,  disappears  behind  whatever  flows  through   it—facts,  entertainment,  instrucbon,  conversabon.  When  people  start  debabng  (as   they  always  do)  whether  the  medium’s  effects  are  good  or  bad,  it’s  the  content  they   wrestle  over.  Enthusiasts  celebrate  it;  skepbcs  decry  it.  The  terms  of  the  argument  
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