Our indulgence in the pleasures of informality and immediacy has led to a narrowing of expressiveness and a loss of eloquence.Intellectual Ethics: The message that a medium or other tools transmits into the minds and culture of its users.A net-saturated world contains: interactivity, hyperlinking, search ability, multimedia, and addictive.Once the clock had redefined time as a series of units of equal duration, our minds began to stress the methodical mental work of division and measurement.Įxtend our physical strength, dexterity, or resilience.Įxtend the range or sensitivity of our senses.Įnable us to reshape nature to better serve our needs or desires. The equipment takes part in forming the thoughts.These tools for better or worse translate natural phenomenon into an artificial and intellectual conception of that phenomenon. The tech of the map gave humans a new and vast comprehending mind, better able to understand the unseen forces that shape his surroundings and existence.Tools of the mind: The Map, Time, Internet.The new reroutes our vital paths and diminishes our capacity for contemplation, it is altering the depth of our emotions as well as our thoughts.The vehicle and chronicle of intellectual development. Commonplace books: a necessary tool for the cultivation of an educated mind.The brighter the software, the dimer the user. As we cede to software more of the toil of thinking, we are likely diminishing our brains power in subtle but meaningful ways.The key to memory consolidation is attentiveness.Efficiency of information exchange vs.These just so happen to also be the central features to the internet as an information medium. In the long run a medium’s content matter less than the medium itself in influencing how we think and act.Ģ) Divided attention.The Journal write up includes important messages and crucial passages from the book.
Though rest assured, I am not attempting to take any credit for the main ideas below. Sometimes, to my own fault, quotes are interlaced with my own words. Written informally, the notes contain a mesh and mix of quotes and my own thoughts on the book. My notes are a reflection of the journal write up above. The Shallow reminds us to take count of our course and be wary of how we are in many ways the technology we choose to harness. As we give credence to the internet to ‘simplify’ our lives we also strip ourselves of the necessary faculties that make us human. Contemplation, retention, reading, and even basic attention control are all negatively impacted through consistent interaction with the medium. Using the internet has ramifications on our brains that are consistently underplayed. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas CarrĪs history shows, various tools that we humans use to extend our mental faculties greatly change the way we then navigate our realities.
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