I've read a number of books on this topic of late, but this is definitely the most balanced and valuable. A great history of knowledge and learning joins with a lot of carefully explained science of the brain to ask some really important questions and provide at least some answers. Anyone who has...
I read this several weeks ago and am just getting around to this review, so, sadly, it is not entirely fresh in my mind..Carr starts this turn of the century lets-scare-everyone-about-the-future-of-technology book with several great historical advances that he analogously compares to our Moore's ...
As people grew accustomed to writing down their thoughts and reading the thoughts others had written down, they became less dependent on the contents of their own memory. What once had to be stored in the head could instead be stored on tablets and scrolls or between the covers of codices. People...