Nicholas G. Carr
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Sep 2, 2026
Tamara Neufeld StryjackGUEST
It actually changes the way we think and the way we receive information.
Tamara Neufeld StryjackGUEST
A wonderful book by, um, Nicholas Carr called The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brain, and, [clicks tongue] and he wrote that back in 2010 as from an anthropological point of view.
Tamara Neufeld StryjackGUEST
And it just really struck me how the way that technology is working, and now, now so much more that's just right ha- in our hands with our phones, it actually changes the wiring in our brain.
Tamara Neufeld StryjackGUEST
And our attention is different, the way that we can attend to things, the way that we can connect to things, um, and people changes.
Andy PattonGUEST
We can put it on a page, which was not the case when you couldn't put something on a page.
Andy PattonGUEST
Nicholas Carr, in his book, The Shallows, What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, which is what it is about, pushes it even further and shows, he cites a lot of studies that shows how our brain is rewiring itself again to adjust to the way the written word appears now.
Andy PattonGUEST
So now our brains are restructuring themselves to be adapted to reading on websites and through apps.
Andy PattonGUEST
So we're reading in short bursts.
Andy PattonGUEST
It's very, very interesting.
Andy PattonGUEST
So there's two examples.
Andy PattonGUEST
Plato's warning, Nicholas Carr's warning, writing, reading on the internet has actually changed our brains, the structure of our brain.
Andy PattonGUEST
We're trying to work our way back to Kevin Kelly's You Are Continuous With Your Technology.
Graham Joseph HillHOST
It has a cost and the cost is depth.
Graham Joseph HillHOST
Nicholas Carr gathered the research on what a decade of skimming does to us and found that heavy digital reading reshapes the brain toward scanning it away from the sustained linear concentration that deep reading and deep prayer both require.
Graham Joseph HillHOST
Many of us have felt it in our own reading, the way a long book now feels like wading through mud, the way we reach the bottom of a page and realize we've taken nothing in.
Graham Joseph HillHOST
And what happens to reading happens to, it happens to relationships and to prayer.
Christian ParentiGUEST
It's so horrible.
Christian ParentiGUEST
Nicholas Carr's book from way back when, his first book, I don't know if it's his first book, but his first big book, The Shallows, is really good on this.
Christian ParentiGUEST
i mean he you know they um in that book which is probably like close to 20 years old now you know they had discovered like at first the whole thing was like oh uh when you do like brain scans while people are using the internet their brain is firing a whole bunch it's the internet stimulates your brain They then did sort of a later generation of studies, and they determined that actually it is your short-term memory.
Christian ParentiGUEST
I'm pouring myself some tea here.
Ida PerssonGUEST
Yeah.
Lindsay PetersonHOST
Well, and there are, I just read a great book called Superbloom by Nicholas Carr.
Lindsay PetersonHOST
And he uses this, there's this big phenomena of super bloom of poppies within a valley.
Lindsay PetersonHOST
I believe it's in California.