The World Wide Web and the Transformation of the Essence of Being Human

SomeOne writes An acm.org Paper:

The statement, “We think, therefore we are,” has long served as a definition of the essence of being human. Our human ability for sustained thought is to a large extent responsible for the advances and progress that we have experienced in the areas of mathematics, natural and physical sciences, engineering, technology, law, literature, humanities, social sciences and the arts. The ability to think is one of the few abilities that makes our human lives different from that of the lives of the other species that also inhabit Earth. The growing popularity of the World Wide Web is slowly but surely transforming the lives of human beings who are beginning to make the sad transition from being thinkers to becoming “clickers.”