The article starts by mentioning Nick Carr, who recently wrote a book about how the Internet is ruining our mind/attention span. Steven Pinker disagrees[1]. (Wh

The article starts by mentioning Nick Carr, who recently wrote a book about how the Internet is ruining our mind/attention span. Steven Pinker disagrees[1]. (Which Carr tries to rebut[2]) I'm always a bit scared about the large influence a few pop-sci titles have, especially the ones that aren't even written by scientists. [1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/opinion/11Pinker.html?_r=1 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/opinion/11Pinker.html?_r=1 [2]: http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2010/06/steven_pinker_a.php http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2010/06/steven_pinker_a.ph...