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Is Google Making Us Stupid?, Atlantic Monthly
 









Excerpts: The idea that our minds should operate as high-speed data-processing
machines is not only built into the workings of the Internet, it is the
network's reigning business model as well. The faster we surf across the Web -
the more links we click and pages we view - the more opportunities Google and
other companies gain to collect information about us and to feed us
advertisements. Most of the proprietors of the commercial Internet have a
financial stake in collecting the crumbs of data we leave behind as we flit from
link to link - the more crumbs, the better. The last thing these companies want
is to encourage leisurely reading or slow, concentrated thought. It's in their
economic interest to drive us to distraction.
Source: Is Google Making Us Stupid?[
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google ], Nicholas Carr, Atlantic Monthly,
08/08

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