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DNA/How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet
Find one – that’s right, just one – video game that is not about learning. -- Keith Devlin, profkeithdevlin blog, January 29, 2012 The internet makes dumb people dumber and smart people smarter. Just as globalization and de-unionization have been major drivers of the growth of income inequality over the past few decades, the internet is now a major driver of the growth of cognitive inequality. -- Kevin Drum, Mother Jones, Feb 17, 2012
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