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The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains (Nicholas Carr/Wired)
There’s nothing wrong with absorbing information quickly and in bits and pieces. We’ve always skimmed newspapers more than we’ve read them, and we routinely run our eyes over books and magazines to get the gist of a piece of writing and decide whether it warrants more thorough reading. The ability to scan and browse is as important as the ability to read deeply and think attentively. The problem is that skimming is becoming our dominant mode of thought. Once a means to an end, a way to identify information for further study, it’s becoming an end in itself—our preferred method of both learning and analysis.Some terrific research is being done here. Nicholas has composed this at his usual best as well. Productivity drops are the main issues we are facing these days. Too much information floating around.
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