The internet isn't just shortening your attention span — it's dissolving your identity

We've heard plenty about how digital life wrecks our focus and atrophies our social skills. But Patricia Martin's book Will the Future Like You?: Reflections on the Age of Hyper-reinvention (out today, January 29 from Karnac Books) argues the damage cuts deeper: constant connectivity is eroding our ability to form a stable sense of self. — Read the rest

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