This is a summary of this longer article from the Atlantic Monthly: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google/ http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google/

This is a summary of this longer article from the Atlantic Monthly: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google/ http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google/ The author is complaining that the internet is teaching us to skim more, and I'm not sure that's a bad thing. I don't do less involved reading than I did before the internet, but I do spend a lot more time skimming to find things that are worth reading. He also claims that "Deep reading, as Maryanne Wolf argues, is indistinguishable from deep thinking." I don't find that to be true at all! If I'm reading something thought-provoking, I often have to stop reading to think.