Nicholas Carr authored The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains back in 2010. This week he offered an up-to-date assessment in his newest interview with Vox co-founder Ezra Klein."The point of this conversation is not that the internet is bad, nor that it is good," Klein writes. "It's that it is changing us, just as every medium before it has . We need to see those changes clearly in order to take control of them ourselves..."But the conversation soon turns to neuroplasticity, the brain's special ability to physically adapt to changes happening in its environment:

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