Google?

I agree and yet despise the thoughts proposed in this writing. The thought that reading things in a shorter amount of time and wanting information faster makes sense to me, and that the "deep reading" is leaving us is a good point. But being unable to focus long is not because of the internet. I was born with ADHD, I automatically lose focus. You can't blame google for a mental bonus that I have had my whole life. There are things that I can focus intensely on for hours, including reading, that does not mean that when I lose focus it's because of a website. It's true that I don't read deeply into writings, but that is because most of the writings that are now being published do not have the deep writing prowess that writers like John Steinbeck had. It is not so much that we are unable to read deeply, but we do not have enough writings that we can read deeply into. So it is not that google and the internet is making it worse. It is ourselves that cannot write or read deeply.