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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
the internet is the greatest device for opening up the world ever devised. It is democratising and enabling. But that assumes its users draw on it to aid System 2 thinking. Plainly, there are times when we use it to inform key decisions – to find out about an illness, to research a holiday, to track a scientific breakthrough. But in the main the we... See more
Will Hutton • We need a social media with heart that gives us time to think
We have, he believes, created in our culture “a perfect storm of cognitive degradation, as a result of distraction.”
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember
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In our digital world, diversive curiosity is constantly stimulated by ever-present streams of texts, emails, tweets, reminders and news alerts that stimulate our hunger for novelty. In the process, our capacity for the slow, difficult and frustrating process of gathering knowledge may be deteriorating.
Ian Leslie • Curious
from screens, she has discovered, trains us to read in a different way—in a manic skip and jump from one thing to another.