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Is the internet changing how we think?

16 June 2010 ,
A thought-provoking piece from Steven Pinker in the New York Times: NEW forms of media have always caused moral panics: the printing press, newspapers, paperbacks and television were all once denounced as threats to their consumers’ brainpower and moral fiber. So too with electronic technologies. PowerPoint, we’re told, is reducing discourse to bullet points. Search [...]