What has the Internet done to your brain?
The stream of new information also plays to our natural tendency to overemphasize the immediate
via wired.com
Intensive multitaskers are “suckers for irrelevancy”
via Clifford Nas
What is microblogging, or in a larger sense, the internet, doing to minds in our civilization? How is it changing the neurological pathways in our brains?
Here's the challenge: read this article with intense focus, from beginning to end. Ignore the flashy ads, the hyperlinks, and really engage with the knowledge and thoughts in the article. Internalize it and talk about it with others.
Author Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/05/ff_nicholas_carr/all/1
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