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

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

The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning..

Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski..

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 eff….

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 oth….

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

You can take a book to the beach without worrying about sand getting in its works. You can take it to bed without being nervous about it falling to t….

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….

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 inte….

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

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

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

One of the fascinating things about early writing on slates, on papyrus, even on early handwritten books, is for instance, there were no space betwee….

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

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, w….

We don’t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes an enlargement….

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, prec….

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 t….

What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence, away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence and more towar….

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 ul….