I think that the book in some ways is the most interesting from our own present standpoint, particularly when we want to think about the way the internet is changing us.

I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way we think.

I think that the book in some ways is the most interesting from our own present standpoint, particularly when we want to think about the way the internet is changing us.

All reading was done in the early years out loud, there was no such thing as silent reading because you had to read out loud in order to figure out you know, where was a word ending and where is the word beginning.

I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery.

What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction.

What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence, away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence and more toward what might be called a utilitarian intelligence. The price of zipping among lots of bits of information is a loss of depth in our thinking.