![]() Nicholas Carr is worried that ubiquitous connection to the internet is shaping the way we think in harmful ways that we don’t immediately realize. ![]() The message is shaped by the constraints of the medium you’re experiencing them. In probably every instance, the book will contain more nuance and the arguments will be more balanced. For example, read a book and watch a documentary about the same subject. His dictum “The media is the message,” is a catchy way of saying that the type of media dictates the content so thoroughly that the two are inseparable. ![]() The central text in The Shallows is Marshall McLuhan’s 1964 book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, which is about how media shapes the thoughts of its consumer. ![]() Try reading a book while doing a crossword puzzle that’s the intellectual environment of the Internet. ![]()
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