You may remember me raving about The Shallows by Nicholas Carr a few weeks ago. Well I read a review of the book by Sam Leith in last weekend’s Sunday Times. The review is good, but in case you are pushed for time (or on the Internet surrounded by hyperlinks) the two most important points (to my mind) are as follows.

1. “Your brain spends a huge amount of cognitive capital on processing the medium itself, leaving less working memory to process the message.”

2. “His argument is about the form , not the content.”