The History and Future of the Book

Carr's Evidence

  1. Anecdote: opening section

  2. Expert opinion: Maryanne Wolf and James Olds on neuroscience of reading

  3. Historical analogy—other changes comparable to the decline of reading
    1. Nietzsche's typewriter
    2. Mumford and Weitzenbaum on clocks and timekeeping
    3. Taylor's scientific management
    4. Plato and Socrates on Writing
    5. Squarciafico on Printing
  4. Observations
    1. Internet subsuming other technologies
    2. Internet transforming other media
    3. Google's AI ambitions
    4. Internet business model