It is very clear that while the Internet is connecting our world, but it is also suppressing our minds. What we are faced with here, is a situation of finding balance. We want to be able to fully utilize the online and digital worlds to our advantage but we need to refrain from becoming dependent on them or negatively changed by them.

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