http://blurringborders.disqus.com/enMon, 21 Jul 2008 14:37:46 -0000http://blurringborders.com/2008/07/20/musings-on-individual-thinkers-and-social-knowledge/#comment-3052609<p>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.</p>KevinMon, 21 Jul 2008 14:37:46 -0000http://blurringborders.com/2008/07/20/musings-on-individual-thinkers-and-social-knowledge/#comment-3052608<p>I disagree with you over your belief that the medium of information is irrelevant.</p><p>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.</p><p>However, this difference may be for better or worse.</p><p>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.</p><p>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?</p><p>We are a product of our time, and our time is indeed an age of blogs and Google.</p>thecounterculturalistMon, 21 Jul 2008 09:53:42 -0000