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An article in yesterday's New York Times,
entitled
"Your Brain on Computers: Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price."

It occurred to me that some of the things they say about computers and the internet now, used to be said about television.
"It's taking up too much of our time";
"we're mesmerized by it";
"it's making our attention span shorter"...

Marshall McLuhan was a guy who studied TV and wrote a book about it -- he called it a "hot medium." I think. I wonder what he says about the internet. I wonder whether he's still alive.

No. Died, 1980.

"The medium is the message" is one of the other things he said about television.

Something to check on the internet:
Type in "Marshall McLuhan" on Google; lines will appear underneath, and one of them will say "marshall mcluhan annie hall" Click on That, & play the video they give you.

(There it is: "the medium is the message" -- it's like, a television documentary to teach us how bad television is for us.
Now it's -- is the internet bad for us?
I don't know; let's "Google" it and find out....)

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