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The Internet has truly become the greatest repository of human knowledge in the history of mankind -- and that's despite the flood of smut and fluff that quite successfully overshadows educational sites such as Wikipedia. The Internet is, in fact, so impressively powerful a repository of information that many fear it's making them more stupid, a topic columnist Nicholas Carr explores in his latest piece for The Atlantic.Carr talks about his shortened attention span as a side-effect of his increasingly wired life; he believes the spread of the blog post has re-tuned his brain to skim anything that isn't finished in two paragraphs or less, and cites plenty of others struggling with the same issue.
Ironically enough, his article is four pages long, exploring the origin of the issue and tracing it back to the splintering of people's jobs during the Industrial Revolution, then speculating forward to a time when we'll have Google access wired into our brains. It's an interesting read, but don't tackle it all in one sitting -- that's an awful lot of words. [Source: The Atlantic]
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Subscribe to commentsPaulmichaelJun 15th 2008 1:21AM
How pathetic do you have to be to let something like the internet alter your attention span? I always read articles that interest me, all the way - it really doesn't take that long. I probably read a few books' worth of material a week, with content that spans anything and everything from video games to science, the arts and sports. Heck, 365tomorrows lets me read some short sci-fi stories (600 words or less). I think that if the internet has altered your way of life so drastically that you can no longer stay on task, there's something wrong with you.
matyJun 15th 2008 7:53AM
TL;DR.
SeanrossJun 15th 2008 1:48PM
People have always been stupid, cheaper internet access is allowing the masses to voice their stupidity now.