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How the Internet Is Changing Our Brain

Fredler Brave
Students on their smartphones.

Technology, culture and economics writer Nicholas Carr’s most recent book "The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains" was a 2011 Pulitzer Prize nominee. He speaks with host Ben Kieffer about why he doesn't have a smartphone and how the internet is changing our society.

Ben Kieffer is the host of IPR's River to River