In popular books and articles, information technology writer Carr has worried over the ways that algorithms like those employed by Google are reshaping the ways we think.

I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.

I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.

It's interesting to think about how the book changed us.

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

In popular books and articles, information technology writer Carr has worried over the ways that algorithms like those employed by Google are reshaping the ways we think.

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.