Author Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains | Magazine - 1 views
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it would be a serious mistake to look narrowly at such benefits and conclude that the Web is making us smarter.
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Keith Hamon on 05 Jul 10Is it not also a mistake to look at the same evidence and conclude that the Web is making us dumber?
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What kind of brain is the Web giving us? There is much we know or can surmise-and the news is quite disturbing. Dozens of studies by psychologists, neurobiologists, and educators point to the same conclusion: When we go online, we enter an environment that promotes cursory reading, hurried and distracted thinking, and superficial learning. Even as the Internet grants us easy access to vast amounts of information, it is turning us into shallower thinkers, literally changing the structure of our brain.
