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  Google isn't making us dumb – or smart. That's the problem
  
  Far from dumbing us down, the constant ebb and flow of information on the internet is forcing us to change our habits
  
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  Last year, Nick Carr wrote a forceful article for the Atlantic magazine, arguing that Google was making us stupid. It's not just Google, of course, but the whole chaotic wave of technology that seems to be sweeping us into the future, surrounded and sometimes battered by the flotsam and wreckage of old certainties. And that was before Twi

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