WE ARE, IT CAN safely be said, living in the Information age. Gone are the days of trawling through textbooks and library archives to find the material to complete your latest homework assignment. The internet possesses more information than you could ever need. But in Ms new book, 'Head in the Cloud: The Power of Knowledge in the Age of Google', William Poundstone argues that being better connected doesn't necessarily mean we are better informed. Nor, curiously, is the oft-claimed converse correct: the internet is not - he argues - making us stupid.
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