Tuesday, June 10, 2008

The Atlantic Online | July/August 2008 |
Is Google Making Us Stupid? |
Nicholas Carr:
"Thanks to the ubiquity of text on the Internet, not to mention the popularity of text-messaging on cell phones, we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice. But it’s a different kind of reading, and behind it lies a different kind of thinking—perhaps even a new sense of the self. "