A friend just sent me this article, which I quite liked: Is Google Making Us Stupid? – published in the most recent Atlantic Monthly.
It speaks to my internet addiction, or my fear of that.
“For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind.
… it’s a different kind of reading, and behind it lies a different kind of thinking—perhaps even a new sense of the self.
… as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence.”
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reminds me of what I heard someone say once (and agreed with) about powerpoint restructuring the way classes are taught, normally for the worst.