My Review of The Shallows: 4 Stars
He makes a really interesting point, that because of our neuroplasticity, we are training ourselves to think in a non-linear fashion via clickable links on the web. The overload of information also prevents our working memories from being able to consolidate and store what we learn, so we are able to take in a huge amount of information, but can’t properly learn it the way we used to be able to. A fascinating cultural reflection.
