A million little pieces

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You realise that your deep, dark secret actually lies plumb along the median of human experience. A great weight lifts from your heart; other people know how you feel; it's normal. You are not alone.

That's how I felt as I read an article called "Is Google making us stupid?" by Nicholas Carr, in the July/August 2008 issue of The Atlantic.com. Carr moans about the fact that long years of using the Internet have changed the way his mind works, most noticeably while reading.

He can no longer concentrate on books and long passages; it's a struggle to stay with what he terms "deep reading".

And this is not a new phenomenon: the article describes how emerging technologies