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This morning I read an interesting article in the New York Magazine called “In Defense of Distraction” by Sam Anderson.

The article begins by outlining the horrors of distraction; what technology has done to our attention spans. Anderson says “People who frequently check their e-mail have tested as less intelligent than people who are actually high on marijuana… If Einstein were alive today, he says, he’d probably be forced to multitask so relentlessly in the Swiss patent office that he’d never get a chance to work out the theory of relativity.”

And just when he has you sold on the evils of the internet, Anderson throws a curve ball: maybe the amazing muscle we call a brain will flex its neuroplasticity and morph into a stronger, more adapted super brain that is capable of multi-taking like we have never seen before…

something to think about.