Lecture et écriture du texte numérique

My point is that the cyborg future is here. Almost without noticing it, we've outsourced important peripheral brain functions to the silicon around us.

Of course, it's probably not an either/or proposition. I want both: I want my organic brain to contain vast stores of knowledge and my silicon overmind to contain a stupidly huge amount more.

by offloading data onto silicon, we free our own gray matter for more germanely "human" tasks like brainstorming and daydreaming

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.

you're the only person in your bubble

the filter bubble is a centrifugal force, pulling us apart.

I think Carr’s premises are correct:  the mechanisms of media affect the nature of thought.

there are a host of people, from mathematicians to jazz musicians, who practice kinds of deep thought that are perfectly distinguishable from deep reading.

in either the availability or comprehension of material on scientific or technical subjects

spoken language is an evolutionary adaptation, but written language, in every form from cuneiform to unicode, is a technology, so there’s no written mode that isn’t under some sway or other.

Kittler says the typewriter made Nietzsche’s work more aphoristic, but Nietzsche was always an aphoristic writer, so was this a perversion or a purification of his style?

La machine à écrire et la machine à lire se sont rejointes, ont fusionné, même si elles se démultiplient en autant d'outils que de pratiques.

Les développements récents des neurosciences cognitives permettent maintenant d'envisa­ger de véritables programmes d'éducation de l'attention, renseignant sur ses limites et son bon usage. Dans cet univers de multitâche permanent, ce bon usage ne va plus de soi et il est peut-être temps d'envisager une véritable éducation de l'attention, notamment en milieu scolaire, qui prépare dès l'enfance à la vie connectée.

The sense of self-containment is what makes a good book so satisfying to its readers, and the requirement of self-containment is what spurs the writer to the highest levels of literary achievement.

The web is an assembly not of things but of shards, of snippets, of bits and pieces.

To move the words of a book onto the screen of a networked computer is to engineer a collision between two contradictory technological, and aesthetic, forces. Something's got to give. Either the web gains edges, or the book loses them.

I would like to see more attention paid to how you go from thinking something to making something. If I’m learning about numbers, how will that help me understand the financial situation that no one in the world seems to understand right now.