Is the internet shredding your mind?!!

[brian]

June 3, 2010: How shredded are our minds? Is our attention span as short as a click and a page load? Hey, you're reading this article...will you click and read more? Or sum it all up with these few following lines?

• See the May 24, 2010 Wired magazine article by Nicholas Carr The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains. The article is excerpts from Carr's upcoming book: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. For example...
  • A 2007 scholarly review of hypertext experiments concluded that jumping between digital documents impedes understanding. And if links are bad for concentration and comprehension, it shouldn’t be surprising that more recent research suggests that links surrounded by images, videos, and advertisements could be even worse.
    
    What we’re experiencing is, in a metaphorical sense, a reversal of the early trajectory of civilization: We are evolving from cultivators of personal knowledge into hunters and gatherers in the electronic data forest. In the process, we seem fated to sacrifice much of what makes our minds so interesting.
  Also see the book review on Reuters Book asks: Is Internet ruining our minds?

now where was i? oh yea, time to click on out of here...next time someone asks you about something, DON'T THINK! just Google it!...30 seconds should be more than enough time to ponder/wonder/wander/blunder...now what were we talking about?...ahhhhh, who cares?...over and OUT!

[brian]

June 8, 2010: A series in the NYTimes called Your Brain on Computers: Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price includes an interactive test called Test Your Focus
Give it a whirl!