Archive for June 18th, 2008
Is Google making us stupid?
I am finding it increasingly difficult to read deeply, to muster the focus and concentration necessary to wrestle any text longer than a paragraph or more intellectually demanding than a TV listing.
Um, welcome to my world! 
Except that is where I lived even before Google …
But what if the very vastness of that universe, the very fact of so much out there to know and so little time to know it in, requires a tradeoff in concentration and focus? I mean, we may have more options than ever before, but we’re still dealing with the same 24-hour days we’ve always had. And the Internet does little to filter or prioritize the information it retrieves — it simply dumps it on your head and leaves it to you to figure out. So perhaps it is to be expected that we learn to skim and scan information, but lose the ability to truly absorb and analyze it. More …
