Book Review 001 - Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

I'm not a rocket scientist or anything, but whatever earning power I have is bound up in my ability to use my brain to develop arguments, spot issues, quickly learn and be able to teach others unfamiliar subject matter, write clearly and persuasively, and manage others.  So I was deeply disturbed to learn of new research, surveyed in this book, suggesting that the Internet is fundamentally changing our brains so as to make it impossible to engage in deep thinking.  What I took from this book is that, like other technologies adopted through the centuries, the Internet makes our thinking processes different.  Unfortunately, I need the brain functions the Internet is taking away.  And I find the last few years that I get distracted easily and need constant sensory input to function - I compulsively check my Blackberry and iPhone for example, sometimes at once.  People on the Metro have looked at me like I'm an idiot when I have them both in front of me, checking e-mails on the Blackberry and using my Twitter app on the iPhone. 

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