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the quote was from Nicholas Carr though, from The Shallows. The point of that book was to be universal. It was to try and suss out the ways that digital techn
by dtornabene 9y ago
the quote was from Nicholas Carr though, from The Shallows. The point of that book was to be universal. It was to try and suss out the ways that digital technology is affecting us. He engages with quite a bit of neuroscience to do precisely that. I hate to be that guy....but you're kind of making his point for him here. The part specifically made about skimming and surface interpretation ( "His" being Carr's, and the point being from The Shallows).
- gumby 9y agoThere's nothing wrong with being "that guy" -- this is a discussion. Regardless of Carr's thesis, Harris quotes two of Carr's comments, without providing additional context, to make his own point. And that point is made through broad quotes from Eric Schmidt, McLuhan (a more hopeful quote actually though Harris doesn't expand on it), Shirkey et al. My point was simply that although his title was that he has stopped reading, and feels that he is now perhaps unable to read anything with any depth, his text tries to argue a more universal claim.