Peter Whybrow, the director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and
Human Behavior at UCLA, argues that “the computer is like electronic
cocaine,” fueling cycles of mania followed by depressive stretches. The
Internet “leads to behavior that people are conscious is not in their
best interest and does leave them anxious and does make them act
compulsively,” says Nicholas Carr, whose book The Shallows, about
the Web’s effect on cognition, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. It
“fosters our obsessions, dependence, and stress reactions,” adds Larry
Rosen, a California psychologist who has researched the Net’s effect for
decades. It “encourages—and even promotes—insanity.”
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