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Musings on Individual Thinkers and Social Knowledge

Started by Kevin D · 8 months ago

The Britannica Blog is holding a forum on Nick Carr’s recent piece in The Atlantic, Is Google Making Us Stupid? Most of the debate surrounding the piece is rather disappointingly superficial - much like the original provocation which relies heavily on Carr’s personal expe ... Continue reading »

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  • I disagree with you over your belief that the medium of information is irrelevant.

    Everything, including medium, matters. There are going to be differences in the way our mind functions if it solely reads print newspapers versus online news versus random blog posts.

    However, this difference may be for better or worse.

    Unlike Carr, I don't believe these changes in information consumption habits are automatically negative. (Pessimism is never advantageous.) Instead, these changes are merely different.

    It is far too soon to begin to see how reading blogs, or using Google is changing us. But, it definitely is changing us. How so, who knows?

    We are a product of our time, and our time is indeed an age of blogs and Google.
  • I think the medium influences us, but it is far from deterministic. It has a tendency, but it is not going to happen for everyone and to the same degree. But, yes, as for the general sentiment, I agree that the medium matters.

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