Summary Of The Shallows

The Shallows is a book, which outlines the effects that the Internet and an increase of technology in our daily lives is having on the mind of humans. Carr highlights the observations he has made through his own research stating that as a society we are “more socially focused and efficient than ever before.” However, Carr goes on to detail that this efficiency comes with a price, our brains and its neurons are easily re-routed through just a simple daily hour on the computer our neurons begin reacting to different stimuli. Carr exhumes throughout the book the history of technology and how it impacted the way society works, connecting it back to the present day change of the Internet infecting the pattern of our daily routines. Not only does
There is a common theme of intelligence within the shallows, Carr portrays the shift in the definition of intelligence; in the ear of printed literature intelligence was defined as being able to solve complex problems. In present day, intelligence has shifted to value multi-tasking and efficiency over deep thinking. As the Internet was introduced this focus on efficiency has been magnified to control the lives of its users. The need for information is at a constant rate there is more value in the quantity versus the comprehension and understanding of the information. Although, technology is seen as an enhancement to education various studies that Carr brings to light proof that there has been not substantial improvement caused in knowledge. Thus, the Internet is portraying a mass volume of data that our brains are not equipped to successfully interpret Carr establishes that with the increase in the volume of data being portrayed to the public the use of the internet has made users impaired of focused learning