Wednesday, February 2, 2011

A Poem for Nicholas Carr

We think this poem by Thomas R. Moore captures perfectly what Carr's book The Shallows is all about:

At the Berkeley Free Speech Cafe

The students are seated,
one to a table,
ears wired,
laptops humming,
cell phones buzzing,
fingers texting,
iPods thumping,
toes drumming,
email flashing,
lattés cooling,
textbooks open,
reading for an exam
in Issues in Contemporary Culture 102.

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