Reviews

How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? by John Brockman

ovenbird_reads's review against another edition

2.0

Not as interesting as I thought it would be. There were too many essays and they were too short. I think there were probably a lot of fascinating ideas in here, but there just wasn't enough focus to keep my interest.

danieljbfox's review against another edition

3.0

The book is full of short essays between one-two pages. Interesting ideas but nothing in-depth. I don't know if it was the authors intention, but there is a striking parallel between the shallowness of the content and over-arching theme regarding the shallowness of our thought process.

carstensena's review against another edition

4.0

Love the variety of essays here, from artists to scientists, you name it. Fascinating.

_mallc_'s review against another edition

4.0

Great. And nicely organized.

ivaska's review against another edition

3.0

As the book is a series of essays from different authors coming from various fields of interest, it is not easy to judge the title as whole. I really did like some of the essays, for example "Tweet me nice" from Ian and Joel Golds, "The rediscovery of fire" from Chris Anderson and "Brain candy and bad mathematics" from Mark Pagel and more, but some of the essays were far from my "attention span" and I was lured to skip them over. In the end, I read all of them, thinking that if I want to re-read something again, it will be easy to decide what to read and what not.

joeriputtevils's review against another edition

1.0

Blijkt enkel het antwoord te zijn dat 151 mensen geven wanneer hen de vraag gesteld wordt die de titel is van het boek.
Ik hoopte dat het het resultaat zou zijn van een discussie of onderzoek rond het thema.
Ik ben dan ook gestopt na het 6de antwoord of zo...

jennathmsn's review against another edition

2.0

Received an ARC through the Goodreads giveaway. While there were some big names who wrote articles, the review copy was incorrectly bound which made reading quite a chore. I think the idea is very fascinating, but I just didn't have the time to flip back and forth searching for the end of different articles.