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Nicholas Carr on deep reading and digital thinking

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Is There a Lot More Social Signal on What People Are Thinking?

There is a lot more social signal on what people are thinking than there was before. In contemplative thinking or the kinds of things you're talking about, there's a lotless social signal. And that does mean a diminishment of the focus on the individual mind as kind of the centre of knowledge. So it does seem to be this big shift in how we make sense of things d and to me, thiss this is a verynd profound change.

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