![]() ![]() He notes studies that have found that people often use the Internet while simultaneously engaging in other media, like. Even as computers have become faster, the time people spend on them increased because of all the functionalities the computers allow. Now, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration yet published of the Internets intellectual and cultural consequences. He points out that a distinguishing factor of the Internet is that users can both send and receive messages through the medium. The book begins with a melodramatic flourish, as. ![]() ![]() Carr follows the development of the Web as it began to be able to process multimedia from sound to videos. In The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, the technology writer Nicholas Carr extends this anxiety to the 21st century. Books may face more competition for audiences’ time. The Turing machine could do any information-processing task, but it would take a long time to do extremely complicated ones. Nicholas Carr, whose book The Shallows predicted in 2011 that the internet would leave its ever-more-eager users dumb and distracted, admits people have hung onto their books unexpectedly, because they crave immersive experiences. ![]() In Chapter 5, called “A Medium of the Most General Nature,” Carr reflects on the year 1954, in which people began to mass produce digital computers and the British mathematician Alan Turing, who created the blueprint for the modern computer, had killed himself. ![]()
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