It includes an extensive new afterword that examines how smartphones and social media are influencing our thoughts and emotions. The Shallows is, writes Slate, “a Silent Spring for the literary mind.”Īn expanded, tenth-anniversary edition of The Shallows was published in 2020. With The Shallows, a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction and a New York Times bestseller, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the net’s intellectual and cultural consequences yet published. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the internet’s bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? Is Google making us stupid? When Nicholas Carr posed that question in a celebrated Atlantic essay, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. “I have not only given this book to numerous friends, I actually changed my life in response to it.” -Jonathan Safran Foer “A book everyone should read.” - American Scientist “Essential reading about our Internet Age.” - New York Times Book Review “This is a book to shake up the world.” -Ann Patchett THE “MODERN CLASSIC,” NOW AVAILABLE IN AN EXPANDED EDITION
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