{"id":1149,"date":"2008-07-19T15:07:16","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T21:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2008-07-19T15:07:16","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T21:07:16","slug":"net_brain_syndr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=1149","title":{"rendered":"Net brain syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discussions of my Atlantic article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200807\/google\">Is Google Making Us Stupid?<\/a>, continue. Edge has been hosting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/discourse\/carr_google.html \">forum<\/a> with comments from Danny Hillis, Kevin Kelly, Larry Sanger, George Dyson, Jaron Lanier, and Douglas Rushkoff. This past week the Britannica Blog launched a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/blogs\/2008\/07\/this-is-your-brain-this-is-your-brain-on-the-internetthe-nick-carr-thesis\/\">forum<\/a> with posts from Clay Shirky, Sven Birkerts, Matthew Battles, and Sanger. I also contributed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/blogs\/2008\/07\/why-skepticism-is-good-my-reply-to-clay-shirky\/\">reply<\/a> to Shirky&#8217;s piece.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: In today&#8217;s Sunday Times (of London), Bryan Appleyard <a href=\"http:\/\/technology.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/tech_and_web\/the_web\/article4362950.ece\">contemplates<\/a> the costs of &#8220;chronic distraction.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussions of my Atlantic article, Is Google Making Us Stupid?, continue. Edge has been hosting a forum with comments from Danny Hillis, Kevin Kelly, Larry Sanger, George Dyson, Jaron Lanier, and Douglas Rushkoff. This past week the Britannica Blog launched a forum with posts from Clay Shirky, Sven Birkerts, Matthew Battles, and Sanger. I also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}