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How the net traps us all in our own little bubbles | Technology | The Observer - 3 views
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The basic code at the heart of the new internet is pretty simple. The new generation of internet filters looks at the things you seem to like – the actual things you've done, or the things people like you like – and tries to extrapolate. They are prediction engines, constantly creating and refining a theory of who you are and what you'll do and want next.
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you're the only person in your bubble
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the filter bubble is a centrifugal force, pulling us apart.
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Is Google Making Us Smarter? - Internet - Search - Informationweek - 0 views
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Carr's concern about the impact of the Internet on the way we think isn't misplaced. Small's research and other studies make it clear that the information explosion and the tools we employ to contain it affect cognition. But it will take time before it's clear whether we should mourn the old ways, celebrate the new, or learn to stop worrying and love the Net.
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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Minds like sieves - 2 views
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we may be entering an era in history in which we will store fewer and fewer memories inside our own brains.
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external storage and biological memory are not the same thing
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When we form, or "consolidate," a personal memory, we also form associations between that memory and other memories that are unique to ourselves and also indispensable to the development of deep, conceptual knowledge. The associations, moreover, continue to change with time, as we learn more and experience more. As Emerson understood, the essence of personal memory is not the discrete facts or experiences we store in our mind but "the cohesion" which ties all those facts and experiences together. What is the self but the unique pattern of that cohesion?
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