![]() The article, and Carr’s subsequent book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (2010, revised in 2020), ignited a continuing debate on and off the Internet about how the medium is changing the ways we think, how we interact with text and each other, and the very fabric of society as a whole. ![]() However, Carr also noted that we should “be skeptical of skepticism,” because maybe he’s “just a worrywart.” He explained, “Just as there’s a tendency to glorify technological progress, there’s a countertendency to expect the worst of every new tool or machine.” ![]() In a 2008 article for The Atlantic, Nicholas Carr asked, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Carr argued that the Internet as a whole, not just Google, has been “chipping away capacity for concentration and contemplation.” He was concerned that the Internet was “reprogramming us.” ![]() Source: Charis Tsevis, “Does the Internet Make You Smarter? (Illustration for the Wall Street Journal),”, June 5, 2010, creative commons license ![]()
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