Kate’s Reviews > The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains > Status Update

Great note to track down later:
Google isn’t God or Satan. They are not a threat because they are overgrown boys who want to build a machine to outthink them, but because of their understanding of the human mind is pinched.

We worked through the history of transmitting ideas from Aristotle to texting, broke down brain adaptation, and discussed the facts of what people are doing right now.
Looking forward to the interconnection of arguments

Reading this with Esolen’s description of Dewey’s How We Think makes the educational manipulation of brain function that much worse, but also something we can recover from.