FOR its annual question about science and tech for 2010, the Edge asked: how is the internet changing the way you think? Now the answers are on offer in book form.
Some of the world’s leading thinkers on the issue prove deliciously divided. Technology author Nicolas Carr is alarmed by the impact of the internet, whereas cognitive scientist Steven Pinker’s response is entitled “Not at all”. Thinking around the debate, Andy Clark, a philosopher of the theory of mind, asks: “What kind of a dumb question is that?”
The book’s conversational tone makes for enjoyable, intellectually engaging reading. I can’t help but think, however, that as…
