Rewiring our minds

I watch television with my laptop open, check e-mail and surf the Web during phone calls. I like to think of this behavior as "multitasking" or Continuous Partial Attention, because that makes it sound like I'm doing it on purpose, but I know that's not really the case. My newspaper column starts with Nick Carr's essay, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?", and kind of meanders from there. You can read the whole thing after the jump. Rewiring our minds, for better or worse by Edward Cone News &am