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David Ulin - the LA Times book editor writes about information overload:

The year in review: ‘How should we rate 2008?’ by | Prospect Magazine January 2009 issue 154
Mark Cousins film critic
Overrated The most overrated event of the year, though it was a process rather than an event, was the spread of wireless internet. Everywhere’s a hot spot now. I want far far more cool spots, where [...]

Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Perhaps those who dismiss critics of the Internet as Luddites or nostalgists will be proved correct, and from our hyperactive, data-stoked minds will spring a golden age of intellectual discovery and universal wisdom. Then again, the Net isn’t the alphabet, and although it may replace the printing press, it produces something [...]

10 Things I Learned from Mental Detox Week | iain tait | crackunit.com

The thing that’ll work for me is to set periods of time where it’s just not allowed.
Amen.