Our Changing Minds:

I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense and “cathedral-like” structure of the highly educated and articulate personality—a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the “instantly available.”

Richard Forman, Play write

I came across this article in The Atlantic Monthly, Is Google Making Us Stupid,and was incredibly disturbed but intrigued at the same time.  The author, Nicholas Carr, writes about the changing of our brains and how the computer is making this happen.  He uses his own experience of reading, and lack of attention to make the point that people are suffering because of our lack of connection with anything other than a computer.  ( I realize the irony of me writing about this, someone who promotes artist art multiples.) Carr brings up wonderful statements by Plato on memory and the reasons why the Gutenberg press changed the world, and how the world is changing again because of technology.  Importantly he realizes that with change there is always some damage, but the good usually outweighs the bad.