Writing in The Atlantic Monthly, Nicholas Carr asks Is Google Making Us Stupid? “My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle . . . [more]
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It appears that individuals who suffer a mild addiction to the internet have inadvertantly trained/conditioned themselves to be attention deficit. From personal experience this is a difficult way to go through life.