The most fun I've had in the past seven years is watching the kerfuffle caused by Nicholas Carr's article in the Harvard Business Review, IT Doesn't Matter (later put between hardcovers
He's back. His new book is The
Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
What role does the Internet play in your writing life?
It plays a very beneficial role in helping me to do research efficiently, to find, very quickly and with a minimum of effort, relevant books, articles, and facts. At the same time, it plays a very damaging role in constantly disrupting my train of thought and leading me down endless rabbit holes. Robert Frost had a lover’s quarrel with the world. I’m having a lover’s quarrel with the Net. [more]
Carr might have kicked off the opinion wave that Jaron Lanier and Clay Shirky are riding and, frankly, I deeply enjoy reading anything contrarian about Our Brilliant Online Future, especially when those opinions are as well-developed and articulate as Messrs. Carr, Shirky and Lanier.
