Is Google Making Us Stupid?
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.
Steve wrote:
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
Posted on 12-Jun-08 at 4:44 pm | Permalink