![]() The opening chapter talks of the experience common to users of the Internet and similar technology of feeling that the more one becomes used to skimming material on the internet, the more difficult it becomes to maintain focus for an extended period of time. Carr’s book was a 2011 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. ![]() It investigates the effects the Internet has on the brain with a central thesis that reading a printed page of text leads to a higher level of comprehension than does reading online. The book was first published in the UK with the title The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember. ![]() ![]() The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by American journalist Nicholas Carr has its roots in Carr’s essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” which was published in The Atlantic in 2008. ![]()
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