This link has been bookmarked by 31 people . It was first bookmarked on 09 Jun 2008, by Javed Alam.
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15 Jan 13
Danielle DixonI like how it says that we may not retain the information.
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"Excellent!" you say, "Now I'll be able to retrieve an infinite amount of information, like Google." Maybe. Or maybe our ability to retain and process information will continue to dwindle.
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When the Net absorbs a medium, that medium is recreated in the Net's image. It injects the medium's content with hyperlinks, blinking ads, and other digital gewgaws, and it surrounds the content with the content of other media it has absorbed. A new e-mail message, for instance, may announce its arrival as we're glancing over the latest headlines at a newspaper's site. The result is to scatter our attention and diffuse our concentration.
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06 May 11
Charles van der Haegen"Matt Asay is chief operating officer at Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux operating system. Prior to Canonical, Matt was general manager of the Americas division and vice president of business development at Alfresco, an open-source applications company. Matt brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to The Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. You can follow Matt on Twitter @mjasay."
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20 Jan 10
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"Is Google Making Us Stupid?"
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The human brain is almost infinitely malleable...
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even the adult mind "is very plastic...
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Remember books? Those were the things we read before e-mail, Web browsing, and Twitter came on the scene.
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We really don't want to think like Google. We don't want to speak like Twitter. We don't want to converse like e-mail. And yet we increasingly do, as the Internet reshapes the world in its image
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18 Jun 08
Takuya Hommait's true i have hard time reading a long story and this may be because of my shorter attention span. it's easier to dismiss this argument by saying we just need to adapt to whatever forms of information input which suit the situation, but when i come to think about it, it surely is a problem if we can't read ancient really great books because of our shorter attention span. umm... i think it's preference issue, i mean, if one thinks that he can get more intellectual by reading books and he can enjoy it, he should do so, but for those who don't, it's not a good idea to force them to read because they may get more intellectual by doing something else. it's just we've got more choices than before and it's us who decide what kind of media we consume.
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Which is why I'm returning to my books. I read a fair amount--the classics, mostly--but generally only when I'm traveling. As Carr points out, I, too, have difficulty reading when my computer beckons with instant gratification. I read each night to my kids before they go to bed, but Carr's article has me thinking that I need to return to doing the same.
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13 Jun 08
Akihiko KomadaThe Internet promises to have particularly far-reaching effects on cognition...The Internet, an immeasurably powerful computing system, is subsuming most of our other intellectual technologies.
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11 Jun 08
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In the the July issue, The Atlantic has an exceptional and provocative article by Nick Carr, asking "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" It's a riff on Carr's book, The Big Switch (reviewed here), but covers new ground and has me worried. Carr writes:
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Swarna SrinivasanThe Internet promises to have particularly far-reaching effects on cognition...The Internet, an immeasurably powerful computing system, is subsuming most of our other intellectual technologies.
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Internet promises to have particularly far-reaching effects on cognition.
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A new e-mail message, for instance, may announce its arrival as we're glancing over the latest headlines at a newspaper's site. The result is to scatter our attention and diffuse our concentration.
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10 Jun 08
Phil WaneEncourage students to read along with articles on views of Tara Brabazon and if using in class make a note to mention The Goggle Generation (Myth of) Report. Good on one level for third years and another level for first year students as well as chats with
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The human brain is malleable. As we use Google are we becoming Google? Do we really want that? Read this blog post by Matt Asay on The Open Road.
Bookmarks google culture technology internet books intelligence brain
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The human brain is malleable. As we use Google are we becoming Google? Do we really want that? Read this blog post by Matt Asay on The Open Road.
Bookmarks google culture technology internet books intelligence brain
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09 Jun 08
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Javed AlamNick Carr: Is Google making us stupid?
Posted by Matt Asay 9 comments
It's not yet on the web, but the July issue of The Atlantic has an exceptional and provocative article by Nick Carr, asking "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" It's a riff on Carr's book, The Big Switch (reviewed here), but covers new ground and has me worried.
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