Eric Schmidt's second thoughts

I admit to having a bit of a personal interest in this, but I've been fascinated to see how the thinking of Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, has evolved over the past few years on the question of the Net's effect on reading and cognition. Here are three quotes from Schmidt, the most recent of which came yesterday: July 30, 2008: "I just got this in my in-box. Anybody read it? The Atlantic: 'Is Google Making Us Stupid?' I mean, we've got a problem if this is true, right? In the article, the author ...