The Souls of the Machine

The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 13, 2010) reviews a number of pivotal books in this essay:

• Clay Shirkey's 2010 Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age and 2008 Here Comes Everyone
• Nicholas Carr's 2010 The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains and Carr's blog