Objective Proficiency p 11. How the Internet is Altering Your Mind. Extra Cloze

A recently published book claims that the (0)________ of time we spend on the Internet is changing the very structure of our brains. Its thesis is simple enough: not only that the modern world's relentless informational overload is killing our capacity (1)______ reflection, contemplation and patience, but that our online habits are also altering the way our brains are wired.
In the book, the author looks (2)______ on such human inventions as the map and the clock and the (3)_____ to which they influenced our essential models of thought. He argues that the Internet's multiplicity of stimuli and mass of information have (4)______ rise to hurried and distracted thinking. Without putting too fine a point on it, the author concludes that our ability to learn (5)______ at all worthwhile has become superficial. Surprisingly very (6)_____ research has looked into the Internet's effect on the brain, but further research is (7)_____ hand and is investigating whether deep-thinking processes really are in (8)_________ of disappearing.

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