Very interesting article! but should we blame the technlogy or human desire to oversimplify information and to become more 'efficient" :) ? On 6/11/08, Mark Chen <markchen@u.washington.edu> wrote:

Don't forget the seven word emails.

mark

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly@pobox.com> wrote:

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At 22:44 +0500 10/6/08, Katy E. Pearce wrote:

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http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200807/google

Does the way that the Internet delivers information to us destroy our attention spans?

Interesting Atlantic article.

More than TV (from the 1950s onwards)?

And three minute pop songs?

Gordo

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