<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ad533790-519b-4873-ab03-b97a5f2a10c5/5AAE3231-5D36-4D23-86EC-1C6C8B07D38C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/feb/22/cyburbia-james-harkin-technology-books" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/feb/22/cyburbia-james-harkin-technology-books" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/feb/22/cyburbia-james-harkin-technology-books"><H1>The good and the bad of digital dependency</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/feb/22/cyburbia-james-harkin-technology-books"><P class="stand-first-alone" id="stand-first">Rafael Behr on a cautionary history of cyber society</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/feb/22/cyburbia-james-harkin-technology-books"><P>We spend a lot of time giving and receiving feedback: filling in customer satisfaction forms; awarding marks out of 10; appraising and being appraised. It feels like a pretty natural process, but we use a word from electrical engineering to describe it. We are feeding data back into a system so it can correct itself and work more efficiently. That isn't the only linguistic overlap between circuitry and sociability. No one wants to be "out of the loop" and it is good to be "switched on" or, better still, "plugged in".</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/feb/22/cyburbia-james-harkin-technology-books">Harkin believes something more profound is happening, perhaps even at the level of cognitive changes in our brains. He cites research showing a marked effect on the prefrontal cortex (where memories are formed) as a result of constant switching between different data streams - check email; send text; surf web; change TV channel; chat on Instant Messenger; check Facebook; </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5AAE3231-5D36-4D23-86EC-1C6C8B07D38C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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