Mundy's Moment: Excuse the interruption

MUNDY'S MOMENT

I recently overheard a colleague recommending to a client "one of the best books I have ever read".

I am very susceptible to book recommendation hyperbole so immediately scuttled off to find The Shallows by Nicholas Carr. Fortunately, I got lucky with this recommendation. Carr’s premise, for which he has uncovered a healthy amount of academic evidence, is that the internet has dangerously affected the way we think. Our brains are literally being transformed from being capable of long-term thought, contemplation and emotion to being easily distracted, favouring instant decision-making and multi-tasking poorly. “The net delivers precisely the kind of sensory and cognitive stimuli – re...