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Is the Internet melting our brains? Is the Internet melting our brains?

No! The author of "A Better Pencil" explains why such hysterical hand-wringing is as old as communication itself
  • Duran Duran and cheap recording technology

    Don't blame the Internet for stifling creativity, says a musician. Blame the new absence of barriers to entry
  • Am I a blog stalker?

    I've been reading this family blog, but they don't know. I think they think it's private!
  • So long, Wiki-bloopers?

    Wikipedia promises to clean up its act. Does that mean no more famously wrong obituaries?
  • Addicted to Twitter

    How I learned that I was powerless over micro-blogging and my life had become unmanageable
  • Duran Duran and art in the age of Internet reproduction

    Is easy access to the music of yesteryear stifling creativity? John Taylor, bassist and '80s fashion icon, opines
  • The tragedy of the Internet

    Millions of people have discovered the joys of seeing yourself in print. Unfortunately, no one's making a dime
  • Who needs newspapers when you have Twitter?

    Chris Anderson, Wired's editor in chief, discusses the Internet's challenge to the traditional press
  • David Foster Wallace lives on for an "Infinite Summer"

    One giant book, 92 days, thousands of readers -- and the world's most ambitious reading group
  • Big Think: Current's Jason Silva on making smarter TV

    The producer and host talks about creating intelligent forums on the Web and on television
  • How blogs changed everything

    As old media struggles for relevance, the once-maligned blogosphere proves it's as transformative as the telephone
  • Where no cellphones can reach

    In this age of instant e-mail and ubiquitous BlackBerrys, is it possible to disconnect completely?
  • Big Think: Clay Shirky on shifts in social media

    The author and new media expert on emotion in the media landscape and why people start using new tools
  • How to go viral

    The man who created flash mobs explains why crazes like Susan Boyle ruin our ability to focus on the big picture.
  • The day the bloggers won

    With no traditional-media allies or lobbying money, the netroots was able to alter the debate about wiretapping in the 2008 campaign. Leading the charge: Salon's Glenn Greenwald.
  • Call me Ishmael. The end.

    Cellphone novels, the rage in Japan, now have competition in America: Twitter fiction.
  • Stop worrying about your children!

    Kids today are just as safe as they were in the '70s, says "Free-Range Kids" author Lenore Skenazy, and what's really distressing is an alarmist culture that refuses to let them grow up.
  • Why can't we concentrate?

    Twitter and e-mail aren't making us stupider, but they are making us more distracted. A new book explains why learning to focus is the key to living better.
  • Rabbit Bites: "Do you have enough friends to get on MySpace?"

    Buns and Chou Chou turn to comedian Brent Weinbach for social networking advice.
  • Are we dangerously dependent on Wikipedia?

    The author of a new book says no, and talks about how a site spawned by an Ayn Rand enthusiast became our most popular encyclopedia.
  • The death of the news

    If reporting vanishes, the world will get darker and uglier. Subsidizing newspapers may be the only answer.
  • The random beauty of "25 Random Things"

    Why the latest annoying Facebook trend might be one of the most inspiring Web crazes in years.
  • You don't have mail

    In the tech-challenged White House, the prez's BlackBerry-savvy aides feel like they've stumbled into the Carter administration.
  • Is the Web helping us evolve?

    The truth lies somewhere between "Google is making us stupid" and "the Internet will liberate humanity."
  • I can has cheezburger ... and pathos?

    The lolcats, the Internet's most famous felines, may be hilarious. But in their yearning, I see nothing less than the tragedy of the human condition.
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