Very interesting and realistic, but frightening…

My next book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, argues that the tools we use to think with – our « intellectual technologies » – not only shape our habits of thought but exert an actual physical influence on the neurons and synapses in our brains. I look at the Internet, an extraordinarily powerful intellectual technology, in this context, examining what the scientific and historical evidence tells about the effects it is having on our thoughts, memories, and even emotions - and how different the effects are from those exerted by earlier intellectual technologies such as the printed…

Source : http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2010/01/the_shallows_ta.php

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