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[haptalaon]

"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."

Fencraft christmas is a book about internet luddism filled with underwater metaphors.

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[cassini]

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[annofowlshire]

Lovely. Which book is this from?

[haptalaon]

I'm reading The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains by Nicholas Carr. It's good so far, although I'm not sure yet whether its going to become one for my permanent Reading List; I tend to prefer books a little trippier.

So far, he's talking about the neuroscience of bodies and minds, which is cool