After all, if everything we know is stored online, and we all carry around smart phones to instantly aid with factual queries, and our brains are actually adjusting to these changes, then it appears that technology and biology have at last converged into one seamless, packet-fueled stream.

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The technology intercepted the flow of traffic from Libya's main Internet service provider and harvested information from the stream using a method known as deep-packet inspection.

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