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Check out this article:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google
It discusses the changing reading habits which can result from constant use of the internet. I definitely find it harder to sit down for a long period of time and read something. But the kind of insight you get from this and the way it can immerse you and influence your life is something I really don't want to lose.

As a related connection, any literary experts out there that know much about TS Eliot's 'The Waste Land'? ( http://eliotswasteland.tripod.com/ ) I read it in a humanities class in college and I remember that one of the things the professor said about it was that it was a plea to a lost age of deep reading and connections. The idea was that the references were so thick that no one could read it anymore -- that no one had the depth and ability to go into all the nuances and get the magnitude of some of the imagery. If my memory of this interpretation is correct, I wonder whether we now have tools for better insight into The Waste Land. Or does our change of consciousness, thought patterns somehow still preclude a deep understanding?