Will the future of reading be replaced by the internet?

by stupid77 on 2008-10-12 21:33:32

Recently, I came across an article online titled "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" The author is Carr, a former editor of the Harvard Business Review. He wants to express that with the rapid development of the Internet, humanity's age-old reading habits have been gradually changing, and as a result, human thought is regressing, making us increasingly less intelligent. He says, "Over the last few years, I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory." "My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to."...