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

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\u201cWe are the generation capable of doing many things at once, without enjoying any of them.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Dinesh Kumar Biran, entrepreneur<\/h6>\n
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“Try reading a book while doing a crossword puzzle. That’s the intellectual environment of the Internet.”<\/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 Net is, by design, an interruption system, a machine geared for dividing attention.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains<\/em><\/h6>\n
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“Psychological research long ago proved what most of us know from experience: frequent interruptions scatter our thoughts, weaken our memory, and make us tense and anxious. The more complex the train of thought we\u2019re involved in, the greater the impairment the distractions cause.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains<\/em><\/h6>\n
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“We have cast our lot with the juggler.”<\/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\u00a0“turns us into lab rats constantly pressing levers to get tiny pellets of social or intellectual nourishment.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains<\/em><\/h6>\n
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\u201cMultitasking is the ability to screw everything up simultaneously.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Jeremy Clarkson, English broadcaster, journalist, farmer, game show host and writer<\/h6>\n
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The web is “training our brains to pay attention to crap.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Michael Merzenich, professor emeritus neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco<\/h6>\n
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Online multitasking makes us “suckers for irrelevancy.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Clifford Nash, a Sanford University professor who’s studied the effects of multitasking<\/h6>\n
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\u201cBeing effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They’re only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Alexis Ohanian, Reddit co-founder and executive chairman<\/h6>\n
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\u201cThe average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you’re trying to tell them.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Meg Rosoff, award-winning author<\/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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