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What writers and others say<\/h2>\n

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“WEB RAGE: When Net frustration turns into violence. Most harmless form: A computer monitor gets whacked. Most serious: A cubicle mate gets whacked.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 BuzzWhack<\/h6>\n
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\u201cTry reading a book while doing a crossword puzzle. That\u2019s the intellectual environment of the Internet.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains<\/em><\/h6>\n
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\u201cThe computer screen bulldozes our doubts with its bounties and conveniences. It is so much our servant that it would seem churlish to notice that it is also our master.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains<\/em><\/h6>\n
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\u201cThe Net is, by design, an interruption system, a machine geared for dividing attention.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains<\/em><\/h6>\n
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The web \u201cturns us into lab rats constantly pressing levers to get tiny pellets of social or intellectual nourishment.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains<\/em><\/h6>\n
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\u201cIf television’s a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won’t shut up.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2015 Dorothy Gambrell, cartoonist, creator of online comic strip Cat and Girl<\/em><\/h6>\n
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“I\u2019ve had people come to our clinic saying they were going to quit their jobs because they couldn\u2019t take [reading on the screen].”<\/h5>\n
\u2014David Grisham, optometry professor at the University of California<\/h6>\n
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“With print, at least they have to pick it up to throw it away.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Pat Jones, senior administrator,
\nemployee communications, TDS Telecom<\/h6>\n
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\u201cPeople use the web. They read paper.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 TJ Larkin, founder of Larkin Communication Consulting<\/h6>\n
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\u201cIt is reasonable to think that if you spend your days indoors under artificial lights, staring at a screen, sitting in computer electromagnetic interference (EMI) fields and exposed to radio waves, that you may eventually develop a strange form of radiation sickness.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2015 Steven Magee, author of Toxic Electricity<\/em><\/h6>\n
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\u201cIt changes your body, using the computer so much. Your jaw drops into your shoulder. It shortens your calf muscles and elongates your thighs. So I\u2019m evolving into a monkey.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Olivia Munn, author of Suck It, Wonder Woman! The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek<\/em><\/h6>\n
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“I don\u2019t know how to read any more. I can only read 20 or 30 words at a time before taking out my iPhone and caressing it and snuggling with it.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Gary Shteyngart, author, Super Sad True Love Story<\/em><\/h6>\n
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\u201cStay away from screens, especially those LED screens. Those blue-light emitting devices fool your brain into thinking that it’s still daytime, even though it’s night-time and you want to get to sleep.\u201d <\/h5>\n
\u2014 Matthew Walker, professor of neuroscience and psychology, University of California, Berkeley<\/h6>\n
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“There’s no question that our children’s attention and memory is changing when they are reading too long, too much, too early on digital screens.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014Maryanne Wolf, professor, Tufts University<\/h6>\n
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