A world ruled by spin, in which political influence lasts only until the next embarrassing YouTube video. Industries starved of creative, deep thinking, as focused effort gives way to incessant multitasking. Households made up of neglectful, distracted parents and vacant, screen-glazed children. Human beings reduced to fast-clicking thumbs, their attention spans no longer than 140 characters. That's the future we hear about from Nicholas Carr, Sherry Turkle, and The New York Times's Your Brain on Computers series, which tell us that our growing time online is diminishing both our individual intellects and our collective capacity for connection. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/02/plug-in-better-a-manifesto/252873/
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