The Shallows

The Shallows

by Nicholas Carr

3 mentors recommend this 290 pages

Examines the influences computer-delivered information may have on human cognition using Marshall McLuhan as the hook, the history of communication as the trajectory, and brain science as the tool.

ISBN: 9780393358001

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