The Narrative Of 'The Shallows'

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The narrative of The Shallows begins with Carr's own feelings ("my concentration starts to drift") and gets only slightly more profound. His argument goes like this: the brain is plastic, and any regular activity changes it. So using the internet changes the brain; and it changes it in such a way that the "linear, literary mind" is under assault. Because "skimming is becoming our dominant mode of reading", we are losing our capacity to read books; we may even, or so goes the apocalyptic peroration, lose our "humanness".

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Carr cites a bit of psychology and neuroscience, but he doesn't seem to notice that the study he unveils most triumphantly actually refutes half of his own argument. An experiment

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