Internet good for the attention span?

I knew the Internet was a good thing.

After all the bleating about reduced attention spans, information overload, along comes a fellow who says bluntly: “There is no information overload, only filter failure.”

And he argues that the Web lengthens our attention span, not reduces it, in this article, and all this heavy multitasking makes, or can make us, smarter not dumber.

Furthermore, the printed word still has its place, but as writers we have the ability to deliver our stories as installments to the whole world, in a much more potent way than those 19th-century novels, which all appeared first as magazine serials.

“Internet Saves Writers from Oblivion”?

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