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The Shallows: How the Internet Changes the Brain
Nicholas Carr · 2010
"Carr argues the internet, as a medium, rewires cognition toward scanning and against sustained deep reading — not because we choose distraction, but because the tool's form trains the brain that expects rapid reward."
Carr noticed he could no longer read a long article without his attention snagging — and linked it not to willpower but to the tool: the net's endless, hyperlink-driven surface trains a different kind of mind.
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