Image by Ben Lawson via Flickr"Experience does not revamp the basic information-processing capacities of the brain. Speed-reading programs have long claimed to do just that, but the verdict was rendered by Woody Allen after he read “War and Peace” in one sitting: “It was about Russia.” -Op-Ed Contributor - Mind Over Mass Media - NYTimes.comIn an incisive article, Steven Pinker argues that the plasticity of the brain proves nothing for or against the supposed distracting influences of social media. In fact, if anything, they make it easier for us to find information. It takes huge amount of training to think to a purpose, and the increasingly available modes of networked information is no deterrence to analytic thinking.
A good point, it seems to me, against the line of thinking that that says internet corrodes the brain.
