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Nicholas Carr

2008 “Is Google Making us Stupid? What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains,”.
The Atlantic, July–August 2008.
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     An insightful review of the processes whereby the Internet is changing our cognitive habits, with an emphasis on the negative aspects such as the decrease of concentration and reflection. It develops an interesting parallel with the theory of "scientific management" as developed by Frederick Winslow Taylor.

[G. Buccellati – January 2009]