This Is Your Brain on the Internet, Part 2

At Wired.com, author Nicholas Carr asserts that "The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains":

The Internet is an interruption system. It seizes our attention only to scramble it. There's the problem of hypertext and the many different kinds of media coming at us simultaneously. There's also the fact that numerous studies—including one that tracked eye movement, one that surveyed people, and even one that examined the habits displayed by users of two academic databases—show that we start to...