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robert schlagal's avatar

Excellent essay. The Hayes book sounds right on. I believe that I recommended this once before, but let me mention again Nicholas Carr's book, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. It's a remarkable and unsettling book showing how we rewire our brains based on internet usage and unwire our brains for other things like relationships, reading books, writing, managing attention, even thinking. He draws on extensive research but it is highly readable.

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Sarah DeVries's avatar

Oh my goodness! I imagine that's in the "horror" section of the library, ha.

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