Tue 4 Aug 2009
In this article, Nicholas Carr questions the impact of Internet use on how we think. It’s a well-informed piece if you’re interested in histories of media technology and human interaction with text. But it’s sooooooo hyped – he talks about his flailing ability to read long tracks of words, and is quicker to blame the Internet than the fact he may well just be getting a little older. And he links inability to concentrate with stupidity. So wrong.

August 4th, 2009 at 19:57
I think this article appeared in the Age a while ago. I started reading it, but lost interest not long into it. That in itself made me laugh so I continued, but the article was really quite long. I was so astounded by the irony of its length that I had to skip to the end to see if he had made it so long for a joke. He hadn’t.
August 5th, 2009 at 16:21
Ha! What classic irony! I hope Carr is one of us who like to Google ourselves, so he can read your comment.