moss’s Reviews > The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains > Status Update

This was a delightful chapter on the history of how reading (and its focus and thought complexity and their effects on human society) developed over time! And how language developed along with it.

“What both enthusiast and skeptic miss is what McLuhan saw: that in the long run a medium’s content matters less than the medium itself influencing how we think.

As our window onto the world, and onto ourselves, a popular medium molds what we see and how we see it—and eventually, if we use it enough, it changes who we are, as individuals and as a society.”