"The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

[Tracy]

http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/jus ... ur-brains/

[MacUser]

What I started noticing around 2007 was that I seemed to be losing my ability to concentrate. Not just when I was sitting at a computer. Even when the computer was off and I tried to read a book, to sustain a single train of thought, I found it difficult.

Ahhh but what this astute individual fails to acknowledge the issues that naturally evolve with time..AGING. Sad but true facts.

Menopause:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2323257/Lack- ... -Confusion

Dementia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia

Sensory Loss with Age:
http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/yf/famsci/fs1378.html


Technology might keep his mind youthful longer instead. Or to put it bluntly... Google might help his brain retain more information as it ages...

A flip side to think on...

[dolfan]

Neal Postman addressed all this stuff years ago in two books that I think most here would enjoy:

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Technopoly

None of it directly discusses the internet (Technopoly does a little) because of when they were published. Postman died a few years back. Brilliant mind. Has particularly astute observations on image-based technologies (i.e., television, computers) impact on how we conceive the sacred.