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Distracted AND stupid?

By Cecilia Tellis

Almost two years ago, Simon C. posted this entry about the many distractions created in the Information Age. Two years later, we’re probably just as distracted but now we need to worry about whether the Internet is messing with our intelligence. In the July/August issue of Atlantic Monthly, Nicholas Carr asks: “Is Google Making Us Stupid?.”

I’m glad I’m not the only know who’s noticed that longer texts are much tougher to absorb and that “power skimming” is what I regularly do. However, I’m still very much amused by the fact that I once bought a book on how to speed read and never got through the whole book! There’s your chuckle of the day at my expense :)

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on June 16, 2008 (boomark / email).