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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

Nicholas G. Carr

As we enjoy the Net's bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? Carr explores the Internet's intellectual and cultural consequences. Weaving insights from philosophy, neuroscience, and history into a rich narrative, thid book explains how the Net is rerouting our neural pathways, replacing the subtle mind of the book reader with the distracted mind of the screen watcher. Presents a gripping story of human transformation played out against a backdrop of technological upheaval.

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Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Pulitzer Prize in General NonfictionMajor2011FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    Carr argues the Internet reroutes our neural pathways, diminishing the ability to read and think deeply by replacing it with the distracted mind of a screen watcher.

    Model confidence 64%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    45 / 100 academic

    Trade / academic crossover

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 70%.