Nick Carr on how the Internet is Killing the Creative Brain
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Some of our most creative non-fiction writers seem to have the brain on the brain at the moment. First there was Daniel Pink, the author of the best-selling Drive, who argued that the creative left-brained types will inherit the earth in the 21st century. And now technology writer and critic Nicholas Carr has come along with a really disturbing thesis on the brain. The Internet, Carr argues in his latest book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains, is destroying (or at least changing) our brains, making us increasingly shallow and incapable of deep and sustained ...