At the end of this series, we ask whether the Internet is really changing the way our minds

What? What was I saying? Sorry. I was distracted, too busy trying to remember which of the 35 tabs I have open in your web browser is the most important. So my phone just told me that I have another email, Facebook, and has appeared with a message that someone wants to discuss. I have a new Twitter DM from someone I have to be careful. I lost my train of thought: what were we talking about

Ah, yes: the web and its effects on the brain. Of course. Sorry. My apologies. You have my attention.

web is our brain? Machines are actually around our neurochemistry and the transformation of our kings concentration level dumbed addressed, click quick fix drug?

I'm afraid the jury is still there. Unfortunately, unlike most of the subjects I wrote about this year, there is no definitive answer and a lot of contradictory evidence. More than any other subject I untangled the web since November 2010 - sex for social change, disability, death, love of laughter - that's what really makes people panties in a turn. Because our knowledge is ultimately what we are.

How the Internet is changing the way we think?

calls on the cover of a new collection of pieces of thought of the digerati. One of the collaborators, Nicholas Carr - author who brought us controversy shallow water

- reminds us that Google makes us stupid by delivery of common information smaller denominator based on the wisdom of crowds. Harvard professor Steven Pinker insists that "the electronic media will not renew the brain mechanisms of information processing." And neuroscientist Steven R Quartz reminds us how little we know about thinking first. Many of these statements are a synthesis of intuitions, diaries, anecdotal evidence and a response to general paranoia dogs when we are faced with something unknown. The book is certainly a calling card for the experts to be the opinion of X on the subject. Proponents say their opponents are spewing garbage. And so on.

But rhetoric. We have proof.

also in the parliamentary session was Dr. Vaughan Bell, a neuropsychologist and co-author of the mind Hacks blog. Comment by Bell not only offers empirical evidence that technology can actually improve our attention, but also the context in which history tends to repeat itself: the new technologies - whether print, telegraph, train or on the web - they produce exactly the same on our cognitive abilities. How long we forget.
did not have enough time to process if the site is actually rewiring the brain, but there will be some years before that longitudinal studies may provide evidence one way or another . And then we will connect directly into our web spines and navigation with our minds.