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15 Oct 09

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Green Chameleon » The War Between Awareness and Memory

there is evidence that faster, easier, access to current awareness broadens our absorption of the present and thins out our access to the past. Simply put, too much of now means less and less memory.

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  • We have to figure out how to see and manage our tools and our activities to satisfy a balance of knowledge needs across the entire spectrum, and take a debate about technology and turn it into a dialogue about practices

  • this is soemthing that came up more clearly in a discussion over at Greg Lambert’s blog, where he points out that “you should only highlight (store and archive) those things that you think you’ll have to recall later on”.



    My point in response was that this means knowledge workers need to become more literate about the kinds of knowledge they are using, what they are fit for, and if for memory, treat them accordingly from the point of creation.



    http://www.geeklawblog.com/2009/07/capturing-knowledge-if-youve.html

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11 Aug 09

Read me first: Google isn't making us dumb – or smart. That's the problem, says Andrew Brown | Technology | The Guardian

  • Of course there are circumstances in which following the old procedural rules no longer work. But they are the times when we need most to cultivate the habits of disciplined thought, to master the confusion.
  • It's not the technology that damages our ability to think. It's the habits of mind that technology promotes. The habits of disciplined, careful thought that linear reading promotes are more useful for understanding a changing world than the ability to pay superficial attention to five different streams of information. I don't think computers make it more difficult. It has always been difficult. But if they allow us to pretend we don't need it any more, then they are really helping us to become a lot more stupid, fluidly or not.
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03 Aug 09

BBC World Service - Save Our Sounds - Audio Map

You can get involved by sending us sounds from where you live, and then listen your way around the world with our interactive map.

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The Extended Mind

David Chalmers and Andy Clark. "propose to pursue a third position. We advocate a very different sort of externalism: an active externalism, based on the active role of the environment in driving cognitive processes."

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16 Jul 09

Bleep! My Finger! Why Swearing Helps Ease Pain - TIME

  • Britain's Keele University recruited 64 college students and asked them to stick their hands in a bucket of ice water and endure the pain for several minutes. One group was allowed to repeat a curse word of their choice continuously while their hands were in the water; another group was asked to repeat a non-expletive control word, such as that which might be used to describe a table. The result was that swearing not only allowed students to withstand the discomfort longer, but also reduced their perception of pain intensity. Curse words, the study found, help you cope.
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