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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
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egonerwinThe 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.
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09 Jun 08
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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