The advantages of having immediate access to
such an incredibly rich store of
information are many, and they’ve been widely
described and duly applauded. “The
perfect recall of silicon memory,”
Wired’s Clive Thompson
has
written
, “can be an enormous boon to thinking.” But
that boon comes at a price. As the media
theorist
Marshall
McLuhan
pointed
out in the 1960s, media
are not just passive channels of information.
They supply the stuff of thought,
but they also shape the process of thought. And
what the Net seems to be doing
is chipping away my capacity for concentration
and contemplation.
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