Technological Innovations | How Google is Changing Us

This article on how the internet/Google may be altering the way we think is great. It describes a physiological change akin to when we changed from memorizing things to writing them down, writing to typing, etc. Cool vignette about Nietzsche's switch from writing to typing (b/c/o his bad eyesight) and how it changed even his way of arguing.

I've seen a lot of

Submitted by on Wed, 06/18/2008 - 3:21pm.

I've seen a lot of discussion of that. I take some assurance in the fact that I still read some epics, but I don't doubt that google has shifted my perception. I have this eternal backlog of long form articles I've neglected in favor of short ones.

Sadly, a few of your reports are in the neglected category, but your blog sometimes gets read instead, so I hope you'll forgive me.