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Is the internet making us stupid?
In Plato's Phaedrus, Socrates warns that writing will make people forgetful. Now the worry is that nobody can focus, finish a long book or sit alone with their thoughts.
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You open a long article, read three paragraphs, and find yourself in another tab with no memory of leaving. Maybe you used to read whole novels in a weekend and now it feels like work. The worry is that something has been done to your attention. The worry itself is very old.
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