Does the Internet really make us dumber, as some pundits argue? And dumber than what? This lecture will analyse what it means to think through and with new information technologies, placing both these technologies and ‘thinking’ in a historical context. Professor Cathy Davidson argues that many of the ways we teach, work, and evaluate attention, achievement, intelligence, and learning abilities or disabilities were developed for the industrial technologies of the early twentieth century. How can we develop new learning institutions and new forms of measurement suitable for a digital age?