Does the Internet Make You Smarter— Or Not?
The experts are lining up on both sides of this one. The discussion is prompted by the publication of Nicholas Carr’s new book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains.
Here’s my contribution to a workout for what Hercule Poirot refers to as your “little gray cells.”
Here’s Carr making his case in the WSJ and Clay Shirky arguing othewise.
The WSJ reviews Carr’s book here.
Wired has more on the debate, interviewing Shirky here, featuring Carr here and excerpting Carr’s book here.
The Atlantic interviews Carr here.
Carr wrote a piece for The Atlantic in 2008, asking: Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Finally, here’s the NYT book review.
Whew! It’s hard at any rate to argue that the Internet causes us to cut back on our reading.
