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The reality is that in grad school I had only a dial-up Internet account, no DVD player, no streaming movies from Netflix, no DVR, and in fact no TV. I had no game consoles. I took no magazine subscriptions. I followed no blogs. I had no iPhone. Twitter did not exist. At the end of day, my brain had not spent eight hours being lit like a neon sign, constant stimulus piled upon stimulus so thickly that even to calm the mind and enter a state in which prolonged reading is possible some days feels difficult.
Ars Technica’s Nate Anderson - Is the endless data stream eroding our attention spans?
