The Shallows – What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains – By Nicholas Carr

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Our Cluttered Minds

A technology writer maintains we’re trading away the seriousness of sustained attention for the Web’s frantic superficiality.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/books/review/Lehrer-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Carr’s most serious charge against the Internet has nothing to do with Google and its endless sprawl of hyperlinks. Instead, he’s horrified by the way computers are destroying our powers of concentration