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A week after finishing "The Shallows" by Nicholas Carr, I can't stop thinking about how the Internet has so proliferated in our lives. I'd always speculated that the growth of the Internet has made us more scatterbrained; Carr actually argues, citing various scientific studies, that using the Web and computers to get information instead of books reroutes how we think, making us crave fast, quick and bite-sized information over comtemplative, serious thought. Even reading on a Kindle changes our reading and learning experience.
What do you think? How do you read? Do you ever fear that, with all we gain from the Web, just maybe we're losing something important?
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