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Chris Harrow

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Magazine - The Atlantic - 1 views

www.theatlantic.com/...6868

google technology brain attention information thinking

shared by Chris Harrow on 22 Jan 12 - Cached
  • media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought.
  • what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation
  • Thanks to the ubiquity of text on the Internet, not to mention the popularity of text-messaging on cell phones, we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice. But it’s a different kind of reading, and behind it lies a different kind of thinking—perhaps even a new sense of the self. “
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  • “For us, working on search is a way to work on artificial intelligence.”
  • In the quiet spaces opened up by the sustained, undistracted reading of a book, or by any other act of contemplation, for that matter, we make our own associations, draw our own inferences and analogies, foster our own ideas. Deep reading, as Maryanne Wolf argues, is indistinguishable from deep thinking.
  • Chris Harrow on 22 Jan 12
     
    Older article saying technology may be changing our ability to read, think, and produce deep works.
Robert Ryshke

Are Americans Smarter Than Ever - 2 views

theweek.com/...re-americans-smarter-than-ever

Intelligence

shared by Robert Ryshke on 20 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Robert Ryshke on 20 Oct 11
     
    A really interesting article. MUST READ. Clearly, not the definitive piece on this question. More research in both areas. Interesting about IQs increasing since 1900, but then very interesting that assessments that measure creativity show a substantial decline over the past 20 years.
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