Author: Jordan Mandel

  • Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows

    Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows

    Reviewed in this essay: The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing To Our Brains by Nicholas Carr. W.W. Norton & Company, 2011. Google. Huffington. Sports scores. Twitter. Text. Blog, blog, blog. Twitt—PHONE CALL!—Email. Facebook. Twitter . . . Does this read like the score of activities that occupy just two minutes of your day? In his Pulitzer-nominated book, The Shallows: What…

  • Gleick’s The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood: “When Information is Cheap, Attention is Expensive”

    Gleick’s The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood: “When Information is Cheap, Attention is Expensive”

    Written by Pulitzer short-lister and National Book Award-finalist James Gleick, The Information sets out to offer an informative information history. Beginning in a pre-literate world when any “information” vanished as soon as it appeared, Gleick presents an account of talking drums in Africa, a widely misunderstood but incredibly advanced mode of communication. Gleick then moves…