Nicholas Carr The Shallows Summary

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Carr, Nicholas. The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember. London: Atlantic Books, 2011. Print.
Nicholas Carr in “The Shallows” (2011) argues that people of all ages are becoming dependent on the internet for all of their communication and education. Carr supports his argument by explaining how he and his friends, have become dependent on computers and can no longer function the way they did before they began using the internet; he and most of his friends are no longer capable of paying attention or even reading for long periods of time. The writer concludes that in order for society to improve people must be willing to overcome their tech addiction. Carr established an argument pointed toward society as
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