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Is Google Making Us Stupid?

Tags: reading, technology, media, ecology, mediaecology, carr on 2008-08-19 and saved by222 people -All Annotations (115) -About

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That’s the essence of Kubrick’s dark prophecy: as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence.
deep reading
The idea that our minds should operate as high-speed data-processing machines is not only built into the workings of the Internet, it is the network’s reigning business model as well.
there’s little place for the fuzziness of contemplation.
Google is “really trying to build artificial intelligence and to do it on a large scale.”
The more pieces of information we can “access” and the faster we can extract their gist, the more productive we become as thinkers.
The result is to scatter our attention and diffuse our concentration.
Old media have little choice but to play by the new-media rules.
Yet, for all that’s been written about the Net, there’s been little consideration of how, exactly, it’s reprogramming us.
“In the past the man has been first,” he declared; “in the future the system must be first.”

Communications & Society: A New Street Corner

Tags: media, mediaecology, theory, wesch on 2008-02-03 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Predictions of Hypertext

Tags: beyondetext, hypertext, landow, mediaecology, mediatedcultures, print on 2006-08-16 -All Annotations (0) -About

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In making available these points, hypertext has much in common with some major points of contemporary literary and semiological theory, particularly with Derrida's emphasis on de-centering and with Barthes's conception of the readerly versus the writerly text. In fact, hypertext creates an almost embarrassingly literal embodiment of both concepts, one that in turn raises questions about them and their interesting combination of prescience and historical relations (or embeddedness).
This technology -- that of the printed book and its close relations, which include the typed or printed page -- engenders certain notions of authorial property, authorial uniqueness, and a physically isolated text that hypertext makes untenable
Its effects are so basic, so radical, that it reveals that many of our most cherished, most commonplace, ideas and attitudes toward literature and literary production turn out to be the result of that particular form of information technology and technology of cultural memory that has provided the setting for them.
Electronic linking shifts the boundaries between one text and another as well as between the author and the reader and between and the teacher and the student.
Print technology similarly redefined the audience for literature by transforming it from

a small group of manuscript readers or listeners . . . to a group of readers . . . who bought books to read in the privacy of their homes
Nelson, Miller, and almost all authors on hypertext who touch upon the political implications of hypertext assume that the technology is essentially democratizing and that it therefore supports some sort of decentralized, liberated existence.
During the shift from manuscript to print culture "an older system of polite or courtly letters -- primarily oral, aristocratic, authoritarian, court-centered -- was swept away . . . and gradually replaced by a new print-based, market-centered, democratic literary system" whose fundamental values "were, while not strictly determined by print ways, still indirectly in accordance with the actualities of print" (Printing Technology, 4).
the democratizing potential of the new information technology
what then will be the effects of the parallel shift from print to computer hypertext?