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“We like to feel connected—and we hate to feel disconnected. The Internet doesn’t change our intellectual habits against our will. But change them it does.”

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“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”

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“Every tool imposes limitations even as it opens possibilities. The more we use it, the more we mold ourselves to its form and function.”

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“Our use of the Internet involves many paradoxes, but the one that promises to have the greatest long-term influence over how we think is this one: the Net seizes our attention only to scatter it.”

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“‘We shape our tools,’ observed Jesuit priest and media scholar John Cilkin in 1967, ‘and after they shape us.’”

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“It’s not just repeated physical actions that can rewire our brains. Purely mental activity can also alter our neural circuitry.”

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“The Net’s interactivity gives us powerful new tools for finding information, expressing ourselves, and conversing with others. It also turns us into lab rats constantly pressing levers to get tiny pellets of social or intellectual nourishment.”

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“We become, neurologically, what we think.”

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