How the Internet Gets Inside Us | The New Yorker
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The debate over what omnipresent information is doing to our minds.
Save this story Save this story Books explaining why books no longer matter come in many flavors. Illustration by CHRISTOPH NIEMANN When the first Harry Potter book appeared, in 1997, it was just a year before the universal search engine Google was launched. And so Hermione Granger, that charming grind, still goes to the Hogwarts library and spends hours and hours working her way through the stacks, finding out what a basilisk is or how to make a love potion. The idea that a wizard in training might have, instead, a magic pad where she could inscribe a name and in half a second have an avalanc
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