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Is Google Making Us Stupid?
When I read a physical newspaper, I’ll often be drawn to the stories that I don’t understand yet—why, say, is there an uprising in Chile? But when I read the same newspaper online, I usually skim those stories, and click on the simpler, more scannable stories related to the stuff I already know.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
What we’re experiencing is, in a metaphorical sense, a reversal of the early trajectory of civilization: we are evolving from being cultivators of personal knowledge to being hunters and gatherers in the electronic data forest.