Latest Nicholas G. Carr Quotes from Interviews

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• I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Thinking, Mind, Stories

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• All reading was done in the early years out loud, there was no such thing as silent reading because you had to read out loud in order to figure out you know, where was a word ending and where is the word beginning.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Reading, Order, Years

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

• When somebody's talking to us, they're not putting pauses - carefully putting pauses between words. It all flows together. The problem with that though, it's very hard to read.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Talking, Together, Flow

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Next, Energy, Doe

  Big Think interviewInterview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

• One of the fascinating things about early writing on slates, on papyrus, even on early handwritten books, is for instance, there were no space between the words. People just wrote in continuous script.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Book, Writing, Space

  Source: bigthink.com

• The Internet, like all intellectual technologies has a trade off. As we train our brains to use it, as we adapt to the environment of the internet, which is an environment of kind of constant immersion and information and constant distractions, interruptions, juggling lots of messages, lots of bits of information.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Technology, Brain, Intellectual

  Source: bigthink.com

• The brain likes to be efficient and so even as its strengthening the pathways you're exercising, it's pulling - it's weakening the connections in other ways between the cells that supported old ways of thinking or working or behaving, or whatever that you're not exercising so much.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Exercise, Thinking, Cells

  Source: bigthink.com

• There are a whole lot of reasons to be very happy that our brains are able to adapt and adapt so readily because we do strengthen and become more efficient at things we do a lot of in changed ways of thinking that we might need.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Thinking, Brain, Might

  Source: bigthink.com

• The book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind in the way our habits of mind and ultimately the way we use our brains.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Book, Thinking, Brain

  Source: bigthink.com

• The only thing going on is the progression of words and sentences across page after page and so suddenly we see this immersive kind of very attentive thinking, whether you are paying attention to a story or to an argument, or whatever. And what we know about the brain is the brain adapts to these types of tools.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Thinking, Brain, Stories

  Source: bigthink.com

• We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Thinking, Way, Printing

  Source: bigthink.com

• I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Book, Thinking, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

• What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Book, Technology, Shields

  Source: bigthink.com

• It's interesting to think about how the book changed us.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Book, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: bigthink.com

• I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Thinking, Discovery, Clock

  Source: bigthink.com

• I think that the book in some ways is the most interesting from our own present standpoint, particularly when we want to think about the way the internet is changing us.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Book, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: bigthink.com

• I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way we think.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Technology, Thinking, Intellectual

  Source: bigthink.com

• As soon as you introduce the mechanical clock, you get a radically different view of time. Suddenly, it's not a flow; it's a series of discreet, precisely measurable units, seconds, minutes, hours, and so forth.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Views, Flow, Different

  Source: bigthink.com

• In popular books and articles, information technology writer Carr has worried over the ways that algorithms like those employed by Google are reshaping the ways we think.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Book, Thinking, Technology

  "Your Algorithms Cheat Sheet" by Jacob Brogan, www.slate.com. February 2, 2016.