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There's a trade-off involved when we go online—when we use the Internet. On the one hand, we get the benefit of having huge amounts of information delivered very, very quickly from all sorts of different sources and all sorts of overlapping forms—audio, video, text, and so forth. But what we lose is the ability to pay attention because the internet is a distraction machine, so we're constantly shifting our focus and constantly getting interrupted with alerts and notifications. We have more information, but I don't think we're thinking as deeply as we used to because we're so
distracted.
Nicholas Carr
Smartphones & Social Media Amplify the Internet's Distraction Mechanisms
#632: How the Internet Makes Our Minds Shallow
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