January 17, 2013

How Digital Media Is Making Us Stupid

Frank Catalano, Geekwire


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So let’s all join together and thank social media and digital communications for doing something philosophers have been advising us to embrace for centuries: retaining a child’s view of the world. Or at least in this case, of the word.

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