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SYSK Choice: Your Brain On the Internet & Embracing Your Weirdness

Something You Should Know

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The Impact of the Internet on the Way We Think

We have access through the internet to all kinds of information that would have taken maybe weeks to get before. It's true that television was often accused of dumbing people down, but it's very, very important to look at the difference between a smartphone and a TV set. With a TV set, people watch a lot of TV, but they tended to watch it in particular times of the day or weekends. And that's what we do with smartphones and other computers today. So this is having a much deeper, much more pervasive effect on the way we think than I think any media has ever had before in the past.

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