As Steven Johnson said in the reading, a lot has changed in the last 20 years. One of the biggest changes is the internet coming to prominence. He presents the idea of the sleeper curve which is the idea that everything we think is bad for us is actually good. In some ways the internet is good for us and in some ways it is also bad.
On the good side how we find information is completely different. We can just type into a search site, like Google or Yahoo, and typically find what we are looking for a lot easier than in the past. We are also constantly engaged by the interactive content of networked media.
On the other hand, the internet is also bad for us. The main thing is again how we find information. The bad thing however is how fast we are able to find information. This shortens our attention spans and makes it more difficult for us to take in information because we are constantly jumping around from place to place.
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