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what the internet is doing to our brains
Interesting article, mentioning 2001…
“HAL’s outpouring of feeling contrasts with the emotionlessness that characterizes the human figures in the film, who go about their business with an almost robotic efficiency. Their thoughts and actions feel scripted, as if they’re following the steps of an algorithm. In the world of 2001, people have become so machinelike that the most human character turns out to be a machine. That’s the essence of Kubrick’s dark prophecy: as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence.”
From an author who understands that “what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation,” this is a rather long (but good) article.
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benkraal reblogged this from dihard and added:
Somewhere in the article, Nicholas Carr writes:...True. Yet he finishes the article...
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mark reblogged this from dihard and added:
I could only manage...third of the way through…
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ilikeyou reblogged this from dihard and added:
A friend of mine said...he’s started actually ‘talking’
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eweworldorder reblogged this from dihard
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timnoetzel reblogged this from dihard and added:
comment was concious of the irony of that statement? I don’t.
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garywu reblogged this from gelgels and added:
Been feeling exactly the same way, when I saw this magazine cover at Borders last night.
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gelgels reblogged this from dihard and added:
I find this true as well. When I was growing up, my mother trained me to be a voracious reader. I read several books in...
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cellophanegirl reblogged this from dihard and added:
it makes me sad.
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bidoun reblogged this from dihard and added:
I’m relieved to know...this is affecting scholars. Well, not so much relieved but...
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ali-sun reblogged this from rach and added:
THIS IS SO TRUE…
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thakker reblogged this from dihard and added:
sticks out is about how we do much more “skimming”, due to online reading....article,...
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‘literary types’...article refers to,...completely...
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Interesting article, mentioning 2001… “HAL’s outpouring of feeling contrasts with the emotionlessness that characterizes...
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bluenemesis reblogged this from dihard and added:
Uh oh. I knew I wasn’t nearly so ADD before. My favorite is...author laments our near...
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rach reblogged this from dihard and added:
Also like this quote within...piece from playwright Richard Foreman: “I come from a...
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