Other related readings (if you have time)
- Is Google making us stupid? By Nicholas Carr
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/
Does Google need to start posting warning messages on their search results - like this one?!?!
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Love the new look Angry Asian Librarian!
ReplyDeleteRelating to this topic is the idea of multitasking and whether it's harmful or beneficial. Here's an interesting article that claims it's harmful and is costing industry billions of dollars in lost productivity http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-myth-of-multitasking
ReplyDeleteInteresting follow-up post to the original post on Hyper attention by Kate Hayles where she linked hyper attention with ADHD - another writer says that on the flip side of that is hyperfocus "the ability to focus intently to the exclusion of all other stimuli". See http://bit.ly/h7asGc.
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