Wired article on the web and our brains

[laurierobey]

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/05/ff_nicholas_carr/all/1

Interesting, but I'd need to see more viewpoints. Still, I can't deny that as I've used the web more, my ability to focus and my short term memory has deteriorated.

All sorts of jokes about "cognitive load" are going through my head right now.

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[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

"Small then had his subjects read normal blocks of text projected onto their goggles; in this case, scans revealed no significant difference in areas of brain activation between the two groups."

I'd argue that THIS proves it hasn't so much rewired people's brains and thus changed the way they think so much as developed a new way of thinking about/in a new technology. Outside of that technology - it's meaningless. I think it's kinda a tempest in a teacup, much ado about nothing, sorta research.