chica panqueque

Nicholas Carr explica en la última edición del The Atlantic, con buenos ejemplos y de forma muy clara, lo que hasta antes de leerlo, era para mi una fuerte pero inentiligible sensación de que tanta lectura en internet estaba "jodiendo" mi cerebro. La pregunta que plantea es:

¿Internet nos esta convirtiendo en lectores de superficie, pancake people’—spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button?

vale la pena leerlo, dice cosas como esta:

"So, yes, you should be skeptical of my skepticism. Perhaps those who dismiss critics of the Internet as Luddites or nostalgists will be proved correct, and from our hyperactive, data-stoked minds will spring a golden age of intellectual discovery and universal wisdom. Then again, the Net isn’t the alphabet, and although it may replace the printing press, it produces something altogether different. The kind of deep reading that a sequence of printed pages promotes is valuable not just for the knowledge we acquire from the author’s words but for the intellectual vibrations those words set off within our own minds. In the quiet spaces opened up by the sustained, undistracted reading of a book, or by any other act of contemplation, for that matter, we make our own associations, draw our own inferences and analogies, foster our own ideas. Deep reading, as Maryanne Wolf argues, is indistinguishable from deep thinking."