Support Analysis Kramer
"Is Google making us stupid?"
- When reading long articles, concentration diminishes
- Online researching rather than print sources
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- Online researching rather than print sources
- The internet has become a universal medium
- Immediate access to a wide-range source of information
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- Immediate access to a wide-range source of information
- When people spend time online, they are less focused
- Writer's friends and acquaintances experience diminished concentration levels due to prolonged periods of online use
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- Writer's friends and acquaintances experience diminished concentration levels due to prolonged periods of online use
- Different kind of reading now
- Text messaging and internet
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- Text messaging and internet
- Reading is not an instinctive skill for humans
- We have to translate the symbolic characters we see into the language we understand
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- We have to translate the symbolic characters we see into the language we understand
- The human's brain is infinitely malleable
- The brain can alter the way it functions, basically reprogramming itself
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- The brain can alter the way it functions, basically reprogramming itself
- Internet programmed to perform the function of any other information-processing device
- The Internet scatters our attention and diffuses our concentration because it absorbs a medium
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- The Internet scatters our attention and diffuses our concentration because it absorbs a medium
- Influence of Internet doesn't end at edge of computer screen
- Traditional media have to adapt to the audience's new expectations
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- Traditional media have to adapt to the audience's new expectations
- Google
- Information is a kind of Commodity
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- Information is a kind of Commodity
- Builds artificial intelligence
- The idea that our minds should operate like high speed data processing machines
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- The idea that our minds should operate like high speed data processing machines
- Network's business model
- They gain more information about us by the links we click on, Google and others will use that information for business
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- They gain more information about us by the links we click on, Google and others will use that information for business
- Socrates deplored development of writing
- He feared that as people came to rely on the written word as a substitute for the knowledge they used to carry inside their heads, they would "cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful"
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- He feared that as people came to rely on the written word as a substitute for the knowledge they used to carry inside their heads, they would "cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful"
- Arrival of Gutenberg's printing press sparked more debate
- Italian humanist Hieronimo Squarciafico worried that the easy availability of books would lead to intellectual laziness and weaken minds
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- Italian humanist Hieronimo Squarciafico worried that the easy availability of books would lead to intellectual laziness and weaken minds
- "Deep reading is undistinguished from deep thinking"
- In the quiet spaces opened up by the sustained, undistracted reading of a book, or by any other act of contemplation, we make our own associations, draw our own inferences and analogies, foster our own ideas
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- In the quiet spaces opened up by the sustained, undistracted reading of a book, or by any other act of contemplation, we make our own associations, draw our own inferences and analogies, foster our own ideas