Chapter excerpt from A REAL LIFE

Chapter 14
The Shallowing of Our Minds
Recently my bestfriend ruined my weekend. He grabbed from his shelf a book published last year and said it might fit in with what I was writing. It was titled The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains.            I had never read a non-fiction book in two sittings, but Nicholas Carr’s book I just could not put down.             He star...