{"id":1328,"date":"2010-01-25T10:18:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T17:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2010-01-25T10:18:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T17:18:23","slug":"the_shallows_ta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=1328","title":{"rendered":"The Shallows: table of contents"},"content":{"rendered":"

My next book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains<\/a>, argues that the tools we use to think with – our “intellectual technologies” – not only shape our habits of thought but exert an actual physical influence on the neurons and synapses in our brains. I look at the Internet, an extraordinarily powerful intellectual technology, in this context, examining what the scientific and historical evidence tells about the effects it is having on our thoughts, memories, and even emotions – and how different the effects are from those exerted by earlier intellectual technologies such as the printed book.<\/p>\n

Here’s the table of contents for The Shallows<\/i>:<\/p>\n

Prologue: “The Watchdog and the Thief”<\/p>\n

Chapter 1: “HAL and Me”<\/p>\n

Chapter 2: “The Vital Paths”<\/p>\n

Chapter 3: “Tools of the Mind”<\/p>\n

Chapter 4: “The Deepening Page”<\/p>\n

Chapter 5: “A Medium of the Most General Nature”<\/p>\n

Chapter 6: “The Very Image of a Book”<\/p>\n

Chapter 7: “The Juggler’s Brain”<\/p>\n

Chapter 8: “The Church of Google”<\/p>\n

Chapter 9: “Search, Memory”<\/p>\n

Chapter 10: “A Thing Like Me”<\/p>\n

Epilogue: “Human Elements”<\/p>\n

The Shallows<\/i> will be published in June in North America, by W. W. Norton<\/a>, and in September in the U.K., by Atlantic Books<\/a>. Translated editions<\/a> are also forthcoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My next book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, argues that the tools we use to think with – our “intellectual technologies” – not only shape our habits of thought but exert an actual physical influence on the neurons and synapses in our brains. I look at the Internet, an extraordinarily […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}