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Home > DIGITALLY ALTERED (Review of the Week) The debate surrounding the cyber world's impact on our cognitive processes is delivered from all sides in a finely constructed anthology.

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Note, he asked contributors how the internet has changed the way ''you'' - not ''we'' - think. Brockman's aim is not treatises. He wants personal responses, and to a satisfying degree he gets them. ... The question for his 2010 edition (even the internet has not sped the arrival of this print-format book to our shores) produces little consensus. This proves a central strength. 

DIGITALLY ALTERED (Review of the Week) The debate surrounding the cyber world's impact on our cognitive processes is delivered from all sides in a finely constructed anthology. [1]

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Note, he asked contributors how the internet has changed the way ''you'' - not ''we'' - think. Brockman's aim is not treatises. He wants personal responses, and to a satisfying degree he gets them. ... The question for his 2010 edition (even the internet has not sped the arrival of this print-format book to our shores) produces little consensus. This proves a central strength. 

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