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9 July 2010

Here come the supertaskers

New technologies and social media are training up the next generation of superbrains, but are young

By John Naish

Young people today are dangerously self-obsessed, over-cosseted and computer-addled – or so the media would have us believe. Recent science stories seem to confirm popular concerns about the feckless brains of Generation Whatever (to use the latest label). But we are not getting the whole story.

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