PPT-"The Shallows"

by Nicholas Carr What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains Summary of Part I with Quotes Multimodal response by Jeanne M Myers LAI 678 The medium is the message Marshall McLuhan 1964 We are evolving from becoming the cultivators of personal knowledge to being the hunters in the electronic data forest. the shallows? Chances are good that those graceful, majesticin northern Alaska and Canada and migrates south to winteralong and near the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. Tundra swans strategy may make the Mary The Shallows. A presentation by Justin . Goetschius. and Sean Anderson. Hawthorne in Sleepy Hallow. It was a warm summer morning in Concord, Massachusetts. The year was 1844. An aspiring novelist named Nathaniel Hawthorne was sitting in a small clearing in the woods, a particularly peaceful spot known around town as Sleepy Hollow. Deep in concentration, he was attending to every passing impression, turning himself into what Emerson, the leader of Concord’s transcendentalist movement, had eight years earlier termed a “transparent eyeball.” Hawthorne saw, as he would record in his notebook later that day, how “sunshine glimmers through shadow, and shadow effaces sunshine, imaging that pleasant mood of mind where gayety and pensiveness intermingle.” He felt a slight breeze, “the gentlest sigh imaginable, yet with a spiritual potency, insomuch that it seems to penetrate, with its mild, ethereal coolness, through the outward clay, and breathe upon the spirit itself, which shivers with gentle delight.” He smelled on the breeze a hint of “the fragrance of the white pines.” He heard “the striking of the village clock” and “at a distance mowers whetting their scythes,” though “these sounds of labor, when at a proper remoteness, do but increase the quiet of one who lies at his ease, all in a mist of his own musings.” .