Interesting (and frightening)


I Google, therefore I am losing the ability to think

"He feels this most strongly, he says, when he's reading. 'Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I'd spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That's rarely the case any more. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I'm always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.'"

I've been on the 'net since before there was one as we're familiar with it (that would be the early to mid 1980's). I've also noticed this happening to me. Interesting (but nervous-making when your mind is all you have)...