The Shallows

by Nicholas Carr · 2010

Mentioned in 1 episodes across 1 podcast: Modern Wisdom.

ISBN 9780393339758

About the book

Examines the influences computer-delivered information may have on human cognition using Marshall McLuhan as the hook, the history of communication as the trajectory, and brain science as the tool.

Where it comes up

Modern Wisdom

#1067 - Cal Newport - The collapse of modern attention (and how to get it back) · 2026-03-05
“type the issue is I mean there's a lot of this research we've known since the 90s a lot of this is captured in um the best book on this would be uh the shallows Nick Kars book the shallows when we're reading something like a web page or sub-stack for whatever reason uh we skim much”
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