Title: How the internet is altering your mind | Internet | The Guardian
Headings: How the internet is altering your mind
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How the internet is altering your mind
A new book claims the amount of time we spend on the internet is changing the very structure of our brains – damaging our ability to think and to learn
John Harris
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Content: we make far more errors, and there's a tendency to do things faster, but sloppier." Of late, he has been working with big US corporations – Boeing is the latest example – on how they might get to grips with the effects of online saturation on their younger employees, and reacquaint them with the offline world. When I ask him how I might stop the internet's more malign effects on my own brain, he sounds slightly more optimistic than Carr: we have the capacity to pull ourselves back from the mental brink – though only if we know what's at stake. " The brain can right itself if we're aware of these issues," he says. " But we have to make decisions as to what we can do about it. Try to balance online time with offline time," he tells me. " What's happening is, we're losing the circadian rhythms we're used to; you go to work, you come home, you spend time talking with your kids." What about the idea of calming down when you're online?