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Why can't we concentrate?
You are what you pay attention to. A review of Gallagher's Rapt.
On the Evolution of Open Source
Open source: a great story of our online times, told here with great verve.
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
No, and that is not the question this article is addressing. A better title: Is Google Changing the Way We Think? Yes, if history is any indication.
Gilligan's web
"...once you begin contrasting 1968 with 2008, you might even find yourself thinking that, on balance, the Web is not an engine for social activism but an engine for social passivity."
Technology makes it easy to record every moment of our lives, almost in real time.
"We're so busy recording our lives that we have little time left to examine them. And perhaps that, more than anything else, is the real point." · Nicholas Carr
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