Pacifier. What the internet does to our brains

The book represents the most convincing study of the cultural and intellectual influence of the Internet. After describing how, for centuries, the human thought was formed by the mind instruments - from the alphabet to the cards, the printed press, clock and a computer, the Carre leads an impressive list of recent achievements in the field of neuroscience. As historical and scientific data show, our brain changes under the influence of experience, and technology that we use to search for, storing and sharing information, literally change the routes of our neural connections. Based on the ideas of thinkers from Plato to Mucchan, Carr proves that any information technology carries a certain intellectual ethics - a set of assumptions about the nature of knowledge and intelligence. He shows how the printed book helped focus our attention, promoting deeper and creative thinking. Online, on the contrary, encourages us to consume fast unrelated pieces of information from a variety of sources. This is the ethics of an industrial era, ethics of speed and efficiency, optimized production and consumption - and now the network will refline us in their image and likeness. We become adepts of fast and surface scanning, but we lose the ability to concentrate, reflection and reflection. Partly an intellectual story, part of the popular science and cultural criticism, the book is full of wonderful stories: about Friedrich Nietzsche, fighting with a printing machine, Sigmund Freid, who dispels the brains of the marine inhabitants, Nathaniela Hawthorne, reflecting on the loud arrival of the locomotive. This is a book that will definitely change the way and what we think about your brains