Re: Yesterday's post. The opposing view to Clay Shirkey's in Saturday's Wall Street Journal was by technology guru Nicholas Carr. He's just written “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains."
A review in Sunday's New York Times Book Review takes issue with Carr's position that the Internet is destroying our power of concentration. (Vindication!)
One more historical/hysterical reference about how it has ever been thus:
Socrates started what may have been the first technology scare. In the “Phaedrus,” he lamented the invention of books, which “create forgetfulness” in the soul. Instead of remembering for themselves, Socrates warned, new readers were blindly trusting in “external written characters.” The library was ruining the mind.
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