RELEVANT 47 | September/ Ocober 2010

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What’s [Actually] On Your Mind? S ocial net working is ch anging th e way w e t hink, pray and “ like.” But wh at h as it cost us ? By Shane Hipps

If you make it to the end of this article, you are an impressive and rare breed of human—an intellectual Navy SEAL, an elite mind, trained with an ability most people just don’t have anymore: the ability to sustain concentration over long periods of time. The ability to endure a mental marathon involving the unnatural act of decoding thousands of abstract meaningless squiggly shapes, which are somehow arranged to create meaning—also known as reading.

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