
Meantime, how is the medium of the internet changing the message and our brains? Are many people still capable of deep concentrated thought besides the previous paragraph? Or are we being rewired for distraction and shallow thinking? Yes, in some way. Many people have never been intelligent or educated and internet is clearly making them bad and worse than bad each day. If you've felt the urge to click to the next page, "The Shallows" author Nicholas Carr can explain why.