More on Your Mind
Posted on January 28, 2008
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Since I began to look around on this subject, rather than just fret over it, I keep finding other people to whom it is important.
“As the internet becomes our universal medium - what the director of the Annenberg Center for the Digital Future terms “a comprehensive tool that Americans are using to touch the world” - its technical characteristics also begin to shape, slowly but inexorably, the workings of our memory and our other cognitive processes.”
So says Nick Carr in a post called Rewiring the mind. I summarised a day or two back a couple of posts I’d done on the subject and that of an academic whose thinking was similar.
I’ve read Nick’s blog a few times over the years but missed his interest in the subject, which brings me back to another nagging concern. How effective is the web at real networking, connecting people to crack intellectual problems outside the main sciences?
It seems to me that we’re also in the softer sciences still stuck in that old fashioned “author as authority” paradigm.
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