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In Defense of Computers and the Internet for Learning
![[article image]](/system/assets/0000/3143/061010.nytimes.brain.net.large.jpg?1276295245&1276295244 "Video games and Web positive brain effect")
Charles Baldwin for The New York Times
If you’re reading this blog post on a computer, mobile phone or e-reader, please stop what you’re doing immediately. You could be making yourself stupid. And whatever you do, don’t click on the links in this post. They could distract you from the flow of my beautiful prose and narrative.
This is the alarm currently being rung by some in the bell towers of technology.
There is a lively discussion and some concern that computers, the Internet and multitasking are extracting a mental price.
Nicholas Carr argues in his book “The Shallows,” that the Internet, computers, Google, Twitter and the like, are making us into shallow thinkers and the neurocircuitry of our brain that long form reading creates is critical for society to function. Mr. Carr thinks that the Web, with its colored hypertext and endless abyss of bite-sized morsels of information, is making us stupid.
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