Is Google Making Us Stupid?
12 Jun, 2008 | Written by Frank Carver | under Information
A lovely, literary article about the effect whereby the abundance of excerpts and highlights which comprise the web are affecting our ability to immerse ourselves in longer, deeper writing.
Of course, this blog post is just such a staccato, short-attention-span snippet. Go read the whole article.
For years Frank Carver has been paying attention to the strange world of convergent technology. During that time he has discussed and researched broad subject areas, come to some surprising conclusions, produced and distributed digital media, scattered ideas and opinions like sparks from a firework, and above all consulted for businesses both large and small to help develop and deploy successful systems, services, and products in this highly complex arena.
Steve | June 12th, 2008 at 16:44 #
For those of us who can’t be bothered to read the whole thing, the last few words are:
“In the world of 2001, people have become so machinelike that the most human character turns out to be a machine. 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.”
Steve