Nicholas Carr’s Pulitzer Prize–nominated book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains is still the seminal work on this evolution (or devolution?). He wrote: What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. Whether I’m online or not, my mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.13
