What a tangled Web we weave...

There is a terrific article by Nicholas Carr on the subject of the brain, the Web, and memory in the most recent issue of Wired magazine. In it, he gives very good explanation of the mental process that dog trainers call "latent learning", which is the process of moving information from working memory to long-term memory, a process all too easily interrupted by distractions. He also suggests serious reasons to consider the up- and down-sides of the way the Internet is changing our brains.

He writes: The Internet is an interruption system. It seizes our attention onlyto scramble it.

Interested? Go read the rest here. Before you get distracted.