Comments on: Google might be doing more than making us stupid

By: Mickey Schafer

Mickey Schafer — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:47:04 +0000

“but no individual idea is valued or acknowledged, while giving a sense of collective progress. But this system also deprives individuals of any deep sense of worth.” — may be…but for those of us who are generalists or interdisciplinary — who thrive on forests instead of trees — the blizzard of instantly-available-connections is enormously gratifying! Carr’s article also suggests there is a different kind of cognition being used — a species of “ambient awareness” (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/magazine/07awareness-t.html) that neuro folks contend is a kind of environmental consciousness (general knowledge of our environment, useful for survival and living in complex social groups — probably an evolutionarily older system, and perhaps why cortisol and adrenaline are stimulated by its activation). UI folks are also interested in ambient awareness as a means of contributing to user control(for one example: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=587122) — maybe making use of the higher cortical functions can put ambient stress in its place? Or we need to develop e-yoga exercises for the RSS addict.

By: Michael Nielsen » Biweekly links for 12/19/2008

Michael Nielsen » Biweekly links for 12/19/2008 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:00:09 +0000

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By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:18:02 +0000

Time to move to Walden. Good read.

By: scottberkun.com » Wednesday linkfest

scottberkun.com » Wednesday linkfest — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:13:26 +0000

[...] Google, the Printing press and stupidity. Puts the whole question of whether tech makes us stupid into a good historical framework. Includes thoughts on Socrates, multitasking, wikipedia and more. [...]

By: Eddie A. Tejeda

Eddie A. Tejeda — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:59:53 +0000

Still developing…

By: drx

drx — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:08:09 +0000

Okay, where’s the punch line?