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It worries me when I'm trying to remember this concept of "brain bipartiteness", decide to google it, and only get links on Serendip. Hmmm. Paul, did you make up this word??? Considering the third link on Google is to a paper you wrote, I'm going to answer my own question with yes.

Since I'm still confused, I'm going to go ahead and comment instead on the article posted by Anne. As someone who feels helpless to my own need to muddle on facebook, news on Yahoo!, e-mail, TFLN (texts form last night), and usually Perez Hilton.com before being able get any work done... I'd say I couldn't agree more with the article's point that our lives of "growing up digital" is rewiring our brains. I think of it kind of like working out at the gym. If you're constantly doing cardio works out, you're not building a muscle base. And if you're just doing lifting, you're going to have trouble breaking down fat. This is related- despite what you might think- because our lives are becoming more and more made up of lifting (digital world) and less of the cardio ("real world"). So if someone only does cardio, they will be fit but could be getting a lot more out of their workout. Meanwhile, if someone only does lifting, they will not really be fit but might look "beach-ready". Point being, the digital world is changing our brain because how could it not? The key of this process, moving forward in our lives, is going to be balancing the two and hoping that the digital world does not take over to the point that we are going to lose valuable connections in our brain that cannot be accessed by perusing through neither the latests hilarious texts ( here's a semi-appropriate one... (330): I had fun this weekend too. According to Web MD, my symptoms say I had a miscarriage.) nor, perhaps even, a blog on the brain.