How technology literally changes our brains

Photo caption: According to Nicholas Carr, technologies like this one don’t only alter our habits — they also rewire our brains. Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. Article by Ezra Klein.

Nicholas Carr on deep reading and digital thinking.

In 1964, the Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan published his opus Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. In it he writes, “In the long run, a medium’s content matters less than the medium itself in influencing how we think and act.” Or, put more simply: “Media work their magic, or their mischief, on the nervous system itself.” […]

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