The constant distractedness that the Net encourages—the state of being, to borrow another phrase from Eliot’s Four Quartets, ‘distracted from distraction by distraction’—is very different from the kind of temporary, purposeful diversion of our mind that refreshes our thinking when we’re weighing a decision
Nicholas Carr

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Nicholas Carr

Nicholas Carr

Writes about technology and culture.

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