Honey, I shrunk the culture - The Diigo Meta page

• 24 Jan 07
  

  PG Holmlov

  Customer and Society

  • Just as things that should be short shouldn't be made long, things that should be long shouldn't be made short. Many of man's greatest works demand and deserve extended, steady attention. They can't be boiled down. They can't be snippetized, widgetized, or otherwise turned into bite-sized morsels. You can't compress culture into a Zip file.  And that's the danger here. The new medium doesn't just promote the proliferation of small pieces; it devalues the long form. In fact, it doesn't even make room for big, extended works. It's actively biased against them, technologically and economically. More than that, though, it both reflects and reinforces our own increasing bias against anything that requires sustained attention or contemplation. As O'Reilly writes, the short form represents "the ADD style that today's interrupt-driven technology is driving us towards."
  • Just as things that should be short shouldn't be made long, things that should be long shouldn't be made short. Many of man's greatest works demand and deserve extended, steady attention. They can't be boiled down. They can't be snippetized, widgetized, or otherwise turned into bite-sized morsels. You can't compress culture into a Zip file.  And that's the danger here. The new medium doesn't just promote the proliferation of small pieces; it devalues the long form. In fact, it doesn't even make room for big, extended works. It's actively biased against them, technologically and economically. More than that, though, it both reflects and reinforces our own increasing bias against anything that requires sustained attention or contemplation. As O'Reilly writes, the short form represents "the ADD style that today's interrupt-driven technology is driving us towards."
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