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ADHD - attention deficit, oh look! A butterfly! In his June 5th, 2011 Wall Street Journal article, Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet is making us dumber. While I do not necessarily believe that "dumber" is the correct adjective in this case, I can agree with parts of Nicholas' argument. Overall, however, I do not feel that the Internet is decreasing human intellect (which is basically what Carr argues), but rather only decreasing the capabilities of human comprehension. Hundreds of years a...