This is a real question. Bill Keller’s column in The New Times Magazine posed the question whether sites like Twitter and Facebook, taking so much of our time, could be making us dumber, in a sense. The response to that can be seen in Nick Bilton’s The New Times bit where he offers a few answers: “If I only followed funny cats that speak with poor grammar, I’d be on my way to a vapid state of mind in no time. But I don’t. I follow dozens of news outlets and writers; I follow chefs, neuroscientists and the president of the United States.”
And when it comes to the rapid advancement of technology, thankfully our brains have us covered. “Research shows that the human brain is capable of adapting to new technologies in less than a week, irrelevant of age or intellect.”
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