We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.

I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery.

What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence, away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence and more toward what might be called a utilitarian intelligence. The price of zipping among lots of bits of information is a loss of depth in our thinking.

I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.

We become, neurologically, what we think."(33)

It's interesting to think about how the book changed us.

The brain likes to be efficient and so even as its strengthening the pathways you're exercising, it's pulling - it's weakening the connections in other ways between the cells that supported old ways of thinking or working or behaving, or whatever that you're not exercising so much.