This is (obviously enough) a hot topic. My local Times ran an article yesterday about a group of neuroscientists on a vacation away from technology - the vacati

This is (obviously enough) a hot topic. My local Times ran an article yesterday about a group of neuroscientists on a vacation away from technology - the vacation itself being a kind of quasi-experiment. I've just started reading it, but it seems a lot more open-ended or essayistic than the Carr piece. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/technology/16brain.html?_r=1&ref=technology&pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/technology/16brain.html?_r...