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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: "Is Google Making Us Stupid?": sources and notes - 0 views

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  • Richard Foreman's "pancake people" essay was originally distributed to members of the audience for Foreman's play The Gods Are Pounding My Head. It was reprinted in Edge. I first noted the essay in my 2005 blog post Beyond Google and Evil.
  • Neil Postman's translation of the excerpt from Plato's Phaedrus, which can be found at the start of Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology.
  • Alan Turing's 1936 paper on the universal computer was titled On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem.
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  • Weizenbaum’s Computer Power and Human Reason
  • Mumford’s later two-volume study The Myth of the Machine.
  • Lewis Mumford discusses the impact of the mechanical clock in his 1934 Technics and Civilization.
  • I found the story of Friedrich Nietzsche’s typewriter in J. C. Nyíri's essay Thinking with a Word Processor as well as Friedrich A. Kittler’s winningly idiosyncratic Gramophone, Film, Typewriter and Darren Wershler-Henry’s history of the typewriter, The Iron Whim.
  • Maryanne Wolf’s fascinating Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
  • study of the behavior of online researchers is here.
  • Scott Karp’s blog post about how he’s lost his capacity to read books can be found here, and Bruce Friedman’s post can be found here. Both Karp and Friedman believe that what they’ve gained from the Internet outweighs what they’ve lost.
  • The essay builds on my book The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, particularly the final chapter, “iGod.”
  • Since the publication of my essay Is Google Making Us Stupid? in The Atlantic, I’ve received several requests for pointers to sources and related readings. I’ve tried to round them up below.
  • "Is Google Making Us Stupid?": sources and notes
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Charging by the Byte to Curb Internet Traffic - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • “As soon as you put serious uncertainty as to cost on the table, people’s feeling of freedom to predict cost dries up and so does innovation and trying new applications,” Vint Cerf,
  • “If all of a sudden our viewers are worried about some sort of a broadband cap, they may think twice about downloading or watching our shows.”
  • metering and capping network use could hold back the inevitable convergence of television, computers and the Internet.
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  • new distributors of online content — think YouTube — are relying on an open data spigot to make their business plans work.
  • at a time when video and interactive games are becoming popular, the experiments could have huge implications for the future of the Web.
  • Charging by the Byte to Curb Internet Traffic
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