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TO GO WITH AFP STORY "SKorea-US-Internet,INTERVIEW" by Simon Martin US technology writer Nicholas Carr speaks at a press conference during Seoul Digital Forum in Seoul on May 26, 2011. Like tens of millions of others, US technology writer Nicholas Carr for years found the lure of the worldwide web hard to resist -- until he noticed it was getting harder and harder to concentrate. He set out his concerns in a celebrated essay headlined "Is Google making us stupid?" His latest book "The Shallows" explores in depth what he fears the Internet is doing to our brains. AFP PHOTO/JUNG YEON-JE (Photo credit should read JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images)

TO GO WITH AFP STORY "SKorea-US-Internet,INTERVIEW" by Simon Martin US technology writer Nicholas Carr speaks at a press conference during Seoul Digital Forum in Seoul on May 26, 2011. Like tens of millions of others, US technology writer Nicholas Carr for years found the lure of the worldwide web hard to resist -- until he noticed it was getting harder and harder to concentrate. He set out his concerns in a celebrated essay headlined "Is Google making us stupid?" His latest book "The Shallows" explores in depth what he fears the Internet is doing to our brains. AFP PHOTO/JUNG YEON-JE (Photo credit should read JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images)
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