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The information barrage - blinded by the light

Submitted by skeptic on Wed, 2009-06-10 21:11

There is a quite amazing new statistic: information increases by 66% per annum, faster than any other artifact of the human race. Here I was thinking I was just getting slower at coping with it all, but indeed I am drowning in an exponentially increasing flow. What about you? How do you deal with it? It is exponential: how much harder has it become in the last two years?

Google rots your brains

Submitted by skeptic on Mon, 2008-08-18 11:07

I found a fascinating article from the ever-interesting Nicholas Carr (remember "IT Doesn't Matter"?) on how Google is making us stupid.

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