http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id ... _article=1

Like tens of millions of others, US technology writer Nicholas Carr found the lure of the worldwide web hard to resist -- until he noticed it was getting harder and harder to concentrate.

He set out his concerns in a celebrated essay headlined "Is Google making us stupid?"

Heavily truncated as per copyright issues.

-Montana

"I think as a society we're choosing information overload: we're choosing to sacrifice the more meditative and contemplative aspects of our minds."

Sure seems that way, but I think you will always have those individuals who swim against the current regardless of what is going on everywhere else. It could also be that learning how to access information quickly and easily could help us when dealing with the LCS later on in our evolution. We can learn online how to type in a precise query to get a specific kind of answer.

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Interesting article. This gives even more reasons to practice meditation on a daily basis in order to compensate. This way you get the best of both world: the ability to multi-task efficiently, but also the ability to quickly focus on one thing with wavering off.

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I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand.

Good both/and thinking rather than either/or thinking. That is what the lady that wrote Tao of Chaos pointed out is needed change.
Love
Bette

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what is?
Consciousness.

It seems to be a fact that what we consume with our consciousness has a conditioning effect, for sure. It also seems to be true that the media we do it through, (when we choose media at all) also has its own subtle, but powerful effect.

-Montana