Diagnosing the Digital Revolution Why it's so hard to tell whether it's really changing... - 4 views
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Jennifer Dalby on 07 Feb 11Another review on Turkle's "Alone Together."
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Joy LaJeret on 08 Feb 11OMG...how totally eerie. How predictive! Amazing, thanks for sharing that Bruce.
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ann stephens on 08 Feb 11The "cultural rachet effect" was particularly interesting to me. (For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly. Because of this, each new generation rapidly acquires all the accumulated innovations of the past without even knowing it. ) It becomes the new "normal", so rather than the computer, for example, being something new, its integrated as part of lives. It changes our footprint in the world and, therefore, the world.