American writer whose essay 'Is Google Making Us Stupid?' (2008) launched a major cultural debate about the internet's effect on cognition and deep reading.
Is Google Making Us Stupid? (The Atlantic, 2008): the internet is rewiring the brain for skimming and shallow processing at the expense of deep reading and sustained attention. The Shallows: the full book-length development of this argument.
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