I've read a number of books on this topic of late, but this is definitely the most balanced and valuable. A great history of knowledge and learning joins with a lot of carefully explained science of the brain to ask some really important questions and provide at least some answers. Anyone who has...
I read this several weeks ago and am just getting around to this review, so, sadly, it is not entirely fresh in my mind..Carr starts this turn of the century lets-scare-everyone-about-the-future-of-technology book with several great historical advances that he analogously compares to our Moore's ...