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Some of our most creative non-fiction writers seem to have the brain on the brain at the moment. First there was Daniel Pink, the author of the best-selling Drive, who argued that the creative left-brained types will inherit the earth in the 21st century. And now technology writer and critic Nicholas Carr has come along with a really disturbing thesis on the brain. The Internet, Carr argues in his latest book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains, ; is destroying (or at least changing) our brains, making us increasingly shallow and incapable of deep and sustained creative thinking.
So we invited Carr onto the Internet to explain how, exactly, this medium is wrecking all of our brains and what we need to do to save both our concentration and our creativity. Given his long and successful history as a blogger, Carr's own braininess - both in The Shallows and this interview - might disprove his own argument. But, on the other hand, you won't find Carr on either Twitter or Facebook. So perhaps there really is some mental benefit to going tweet free.