Is Google Making Us Stupid? — The Atlantic

What the Internet is doing to our brains

July/August 2008 Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is doing to our brains Nicholas Carr Jul 1 2008, 12:00 PM ET Share on Facebook Twitter LinkedIn InstaPaper Pocket Pinterest Tumblr Email Print Comments Illustration by Guy Billout "Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey . Bowman, having nearly been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine, is calmly, coldly disconnecting the

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