Oh well, My attempt to embed my Zotero video was not exactly successful. I will get to that in a moment, but first I wanted to post another NPR spot that caught my ear this week.
It was about an article Nicholas Carr wrote for the Atlantic: Is Google Making Us Stupid. Carr believes that reading on the Internet is changing the way our brains assimilate information. He specifically used the reading of a book as an example.
Knowledge and wisdom Carr believes comes from "deep reading" and the Internet thrives on interruptions. He believes that we are losing our power to concentrate.
Who knows maybe one day when we enter the digital world via our home computers we will be faced with this... WARNING: Reading On the Internet is Bad for Your Intelligence
or
Dumb Down: Use the Internet!
http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=2&prgDate=6-2-2010
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