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A review by tim_ohearn
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
2.0
The title is misleading and the book fails to reach concise conclusions. The first half reads as if it is building up to a major, revolutionary breakthrough in psychoanalysis, however the book progresses in the same vein- tacking on facts of diminishing importance until the bitter end. Instead of analyzing IQ test results, genuflecting to Google, and dedicating a section to his pilgrimage to Colorado, the author should have focused on the sharp rise in diagnoses of ADD/ADHD among young people. Especially since tech companies and researchers were mentioned so frequently, I can't understand why the relationship between jobs requiring employees to spend long hours on the computer and the tendency of those workers to exhibit patterns of thinking and common deficiencies related to attention span and memory was not explored.