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Nicholas Carr - The Shallows
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Expanding his much-discussed Atlantic Monthly article about the Internet’s social and cognitive effects, Carr argues from scientific and anecdotal evidence that the Web, by fostering distraction in place of concentration, changes how we read and think and even alters neural pathways.
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