Collecting Our Thoughts

Steven Berlin Johnson reviews Nick Carr's new book. He disagrees with Carr that the internet is ruining our brains:

Actually sitting down to write out a response to something makes yousee it in a new way, often with greater complexity. And that of courseis the crucial flipside to the decline of long-form reading in thedigital age: the increase in short-form writing. If we areslightly less able to focus because of the distractions of electrictext, I suspect it is more than made up for by the...