Is Google Making Me Silly? Web-Extended Persons in an Interrogative Mood

摘要

Many of us live in a state of persistent and pervasive connectivity. For quite some time, questions on whether this is doing us good or bad have increased in number and variety, as well as their answer trails. We pin our starting point in the public debate around N. Carr's question "Is Google making me stupid?", and we examine the questions asked and those left unasked. We propose a new vocabulary to guide our life as 'web-extended persons', rather than 'web-extended minds'.