Kevin Donovan points us to a short but interesting essay by Steven Pinker, on technological progress .
In it, he discusses the popularity of moral panics over new technologies, and claims by folks who say that Google/text messaging/the web/email/etc are "making us stupid." He suggests a rather simple test for determining how silly those are, which includes seeing whether or not you'd exchange what you have today for what you had in the past:
I would suggest another...
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