Power Browsing: What the Internet is Doing to Our Mental Habits

Nicholas Carr author of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google (2008), Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage (2004) and the very influencial 2003 Harvard Business Review article "IT Doesn't Matter" [LLB post] has penned Is Google Making Us Stupid? for The Atlantic. The article is about our ability to adapt to new intellectual technologies.

Is the Internet making us stupid? Not likely but it is altering our mental habits. [RJ & JH]