'The Shallows': This Is Your Brain Online

[arcadian]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127370598&sc=17&f=1032

Try reading a book while doing a crossword puzzle, and that, says author Nicholas Carr, is what you're doing every time you use the Internet.

Carr is the author of the Atlantic article Is Google Making Us Stupid? which he has expanded into a book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains.

Carr believes that the Internet is a medium based on interruption — and it's changing the way people read and process information. We've come to associate the acquisition of wisdom with deep reading and solitary concentration, and he says there's not much of that to be found online.


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[xchrom]

1. re - though i think i'm condemning myself by saying so. nt

[JuniperLea]

2. I believe that started with Sesame Street and The Electric Company...

We have been raised to have short attention spans.

[EmilyKent]

3. He can say that in an era of chess-boxing?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing

[Speck Tater]

4. The article looks like it might be interesting, but right now...

I have to hop over the "greatest Threads" and search for "TOON". I may read it later if something else doesn't interrupt me first.

[damntexdem]

5. I'm sorry, I didn't make it all the way through your message. Got too distracted.

But we do need to discuss whether the net is making us ............. ooh, shiny!