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Saved by 11 people (0 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-09-20
- Deangroom on 2008-10-19 - Tags technology , nytimes , reading
- Imrchen on 2008-10-02 - Tags reading
- Oripsolob on 2008-09-29 - Tags google , technology , education
- Generoche on 2008-09-29 - Tags Learning
- Witchyrichy on 2008-09-28 - Tags nytimes , technology , dumb
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Google makes deep reading impossible. Media changes. Our brains’ wiring changes too. Computers think for us, flattening our intelligence.
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There is even a version, Yammer, for use inside companies. You follow the word bursts of particular employees. (“In the weekly staff meeting. Good bagels. Why is everyone wearing khakis? All staff must file their T.P.S. reports on time, O.K.?”) As if there weren’t already enough to distract us in the workplace between meetings, phone calls, instant messages, e-mail messages and those Google searches.
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If people question the benefit of Google, which has largely liberated us from the time-wasting activities associated with finding information, there is outright hostility to a tool that condenses our lives into haiku.
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People have to discover value for themselves.
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It is hard to think of a technology that wasn’t feared when it was introduced.
In his Atlantic article, Mr. Carr says that Socrates feared the impact that
writing would have on man’s ability to think. The advent of the printing press
summoned similar fears. It wouldn’t be the last time.
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But for all the new technologies that increase our productivity, there are others that demand more of our time. That is one of the dialectics of our era
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The proportion of time-wasters to time-savers may only grow. In a knowledge-based society in which knowledge is free, attention becomes the valued commodity.
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the world outlook of the engineer is by nature optimistic. Every problem can be solved if you have the right tools and enough time and you pose the correct questions. Other people, who can be just as scientific, see the natural order of the world in terms of entropy, decline and death.
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In a knowledge-based society in which knowledge is free, attention becomes the
valued commodity. Companies compete for eyeballs, that great metric born in the
dot-com boom, and vie to create media that are sticky, another great term from
this era. We are not paid for our attention span, but rewarded for it with yet
more distractions and demands on our time.
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