Here's something for those of us who want to justify our enjoyment of the much-maligned TV - Steven Johnson (author, most recently, of 'Mind Wide Open') has written an article in the New York Times about how TV, contrary to popular and scholarly belief, is really making us smarter! He has a point. Of course, it all comes down to what you watch.

And here's another one in similar vein - this time, a study that purports to demonstrate that emails are making us dumber!

I think the moral of both these cases is that it all depends on HOW you interact with ... whatever (tv, computers, phones, PDAs, etc etc).