Twitter, Facebook, Google… we know the internet is driving us to distraction. But could sitting at your computer actually calm you down?
A long time ago, in internet terms, two years before Instagram, and around the time of Twitter's second birthday – the US writer Nicholas Carr published a now famous essay in the Atlantic magazine entitled Is Google Making Us Stupid? The more time he spent online, Carr reported, the more he experienced the sensation that something was eating away at his brain. "I'm not thinking the way I used to think," he wrote.
Conscious computing: how to take control of your life online
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