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SHARON L. Bowman, M.A. PROFESSIONAL TRAINER & SPEAKER - 41 views

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Josh Flores

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Magazine - The Atlantic - 48 views

    • donheberer85
       
      I love the picture
    • Josh Flores
       
      I think we forget to ADD our knowledge to the "great database" in the sky. Maybe our curriculum needs more of this?
  • Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes
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  • media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought
  • chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation
    • Josh Flores
       
      Another challenge and another reason to totally re-haul the way curriculum is developed and delivered.
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    ""Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?" So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bowman, having nearly been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine, is calmly, coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial " brain. "Dave, my mind is going," HAL says, forlornly. "I can feel it. I can feel it." "
Andrew Williamson

Chucking a googly: when data is king, design goes out the door - 0 views

  • Bowman's main complaint is that in Google's engineering-driven culture, data trumps everything else. When he would make a design decision, no matter how minute, he was asked to back it up with data. Before he could decide whether a line on a web page should be three, four or five pixels wide, for example, he had to put up test versions of all three pages on the web. Different groups of users would see different versions, and their clicking behaviour, or the amount of time they spent on a page, would help pick a winner. "Data eventually becomes a crutch for every decision, paralysing the company and preventing it from making any daring design decisions," Bowman wrote.
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