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A short, sort of review of Nicholas Carr’s “The Shallows. What Google is Doing to our Brains.”

A short, sort of review of Nicholas Carr’s “The Shallows. What Google is Doing to our Brains.”

By Thomas Otter on September 13, 2010

Many technology writers  deify or reify technology.  There is often an assumption that more technology is by definition a good thing.  Nicholas Carr’s recent book challenges that. This is probably why many tech types don’t seem to like it. Looking through my blog archive, I’ve often disagreed with Carr, but rather than just base my […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged book review, books, Carr, De Botton, google, Hopkins, life, Nicholas Carr, reading, Shallows, The Shallows | 1 Response

A Saint Patrick’s Day special: Further Thoughts on Manuscripts, Marginalia, Mashups and Reading as Writing

A Saint Patrick’s Day special: Further Thoughts on Manuscripts, Marginalia, Mashups and Reading as Writing

By James Governor on March 17, 2010

I wrote a post the other day about Digital Manuscripts, Reading as Writing, and the danger of of “digital rights management” (DRM). The New York Times today provided a lovely follow up in the shape of an article – Turning Green With Literacy – about the Irish role in saving the book after the Roman […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged drm, ebooks, hachette, iPad, reading, saint patrick

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