Internet shatters our focus and rewires our brain

The current explosion of digital technology not only is changing the way we live and communicates but is rapidly and profoundly altering our brains. When we go online, we enter an environment that promotes cursory reading, hurried and distracted thinking and superficial learning. Even as the Internet grants us easy access to vast amount of information, it is turning us into shallower thinkers, literally changing the structure of our brain. People who read linear text comprehended more, remember more, and learned more than those who read texts peppered with links. The depth of our intelligence hinges on our hability to transfer information from working memory, the scratch pad of consciousness, to long term memory, the mind's filling system. The Internet is an interruption system, it seize our attention onlyto scramble it. There's the problem of hypertext and the many different kinds of media coming at us simultanously. Nicholas Carr in The Shallows in Wired, June 2010, (p. 112-118)