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Reading this Blog Makes You Stupid

Or does it make you smarter?  There's substantial debate about the effect of the Internet and other gadgets on user attention and intelligence.  All of these attacks on the Internet fail to ask: What's the alternative?In other words, what were people doing with their time before reading blogs?  Pre-blogs, were people translating Homer in between solving quadratic equations?  I don't watch television or make small talk at the office.  I do spend a lot of time online.  Today a friend on Facebook noted in his status update that today was the anniversary of D-Day.  I went to Wikipedia to read about the Normandy Invasion.  From there I clicked links to read about General Erwin Rommel's joining the assignation plot against Adolf Hitler.  The assassination attempt failed, but Rommel was allowed to kill himself rather than be tried before Germany's kangaroo court...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on June 07, 2010 (boomark / email).