A recurring theme on this website is reflection on how computer technology and electronic communication affects creativity, the way we process information, reading patterns, personal relationships and sustained deep thought. Increasingly, scientists and social observers acknowledge that such effects are hardly always benign. I am certainly not alone in my wonderment about these critical matters. A very recent article in the business section of The New York Times entitled “Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price” was insightful: “Scientists say juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming information can change how people think and behave. They say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information.”