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Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Nicholas Carr - The Atlantic - 4 views

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- Dina Le on 23 Apr 13
  
  interesting adjective
  
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They found that people using the sites exhibited “a form of skimming activity,” hopping from one source to another and rarely returning to any source they’d already visited
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“power browse”
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“mere decoders of information.”
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e inevitably begin to take on the qualities of those technologies
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When the mechanical clock arrived, people began thinking of their brains as operating “like clockwork.” Today, in the age of software, we have come to think of them as operating “like computers.”
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- Dina Le on 23 Apr 13
  
  our brains continue to be manipulated by the current technology, affect our way of thinking and living
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">our brains continue to be manipulated by the current technology, affect our way of thinking and living</div>
  
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traditional media have to adapt to the audience’s new expectations.
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“shortcuts” would give harried readers a quick “taste” of the day’s news, sparing them the “less efficient” method of actually turning the pages and reading the articles.
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- Dina Le on 23 Apr 13
  
  catering to a "dumber" and less-attentive audience
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">catering to a "dumber" and less-attentive audience</div>
  
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Midvale’s employees grumbled about the strict new regime, claiming that it turned them into little more than automatons, but the factory’s productivity soared
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Taylor’s tight industrial choreography—his “system,” as he liked to call it—was embraced by manufacturers throughout the country and, in time, around the world. Seeking maximum speed, maximum efficiency, and maximum output, factory owners used time-and-motion studies to organize their work and configure the jobs of their workers.
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- Dina Le on 23 Apr 13
  
  like this new system of labor, the internet has likewise created a system of efficient information communication--it has cut out all of the excess fat and has compiled concise bits of info and adapted multiple streams to keep readers entertained
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">like this new system of labor, the internet has likewise created a system of efficient information communication--it has cut out all of the excess fat and has compiled concise bits of info and adapted multiple streams to keep readers entertained</div>
  
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Taylor’s ethic is beginning to govern the realm of the mind as well. The Internet is a machine designed for the efficient and automated collection, transmission, and manipulation of information, and its legions of programmers are intent on finding the “one best method”—the perfect algorithm—to carry out every mental movement of what we’ve come to describe as “knowledge work
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“a company that’s founded around the science of measurement,” and it is striving to “systematize everything
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What Taylor did for the work of the hand, Google is doing for the work of the mind.
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