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By Torkel Klingberg. Translated by Neil Betteridge. 202 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 2009. $21.95. ISBN 978-0-19-537288-5.

As Torkel Klingberg points out in this book, the current milieu — in which there is an endless flow of cell phone messages and e-mails — is quite different from the environment in which the brains of homo sapiens evolved. Instead of bemoaning this mismatch, he examines how we attempt to deal with the flood of information and suggests that there may even be positive effects.

The book begins with a statement of the problem: Our brains largely stopped evolving in the Stone Age, and yet the demands on them have greatly increased since then. The second section of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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