Book Review from the New York Times

On the way home from work this afternoon I found a review of:

Carr, Nicholas G. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010. Print

in the New York Times Book Review.

Carr argues that we are sabatoging ourselves, trading away the seriousness of sustained attention for the sustained superficiality of the Internet. He insists the negative side effects of the Internet outweigh its efficiencies. He even wrote an article in the Atlantic Monthly titled "Is Google Making us stupid?"

Jonah Lehrer the reviewer states "What Carr neglects to mention, however, is that the preponderance of scientific evidence suggests that the Internet and related technologies are actually good for the mind"

I will have to read the Atlantic Monthly article and get a hold of the book. A book review is successful when it inspires readers to obtain the book.

This is certainly a controversial topic. Students today learn differently from their parents. I think the Internet induces people to think in a "hypertext sense" rather than the linear method of a generation ago.