A journal entry of Cheever, I'm reading with great pleasure now (not as long ) "Who wants to fall in love? Who may want to wait for a voice, footsteps, a cough? Who would? " [pg. 255, Emece].
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"JOHNSON: And why were you going to write what I say? BOSWELL: write what he says when he is so good it's worth keeping it. "
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There is no doubt that surfing the Web is a stupefied way as good as any. Who has not proven? Getting lost is easy.
But there are many other dumbed ways. We can say that infinite forms and systems that contribute to closer to that wonderful icon of facial drooping and be undaunted with his mouth slightly open and drooling lips. But in the end, we will not let his hands to his head, as Nicholas Carr makes in his book " Surface" (Ariel, 2011).
The problem, of course, is in us, not in the Network And all must pay, one way or another. If I can have this space to write what pleases me is that there must be other melons doing many clicks there.
summarize what Carr says: For centuries we've done a brain-based concentrate and dedication to study something in depth. Brain creative, productive, and so on. A wonder of the brain. We have not gone wrong since Gutenberg, is assumed. We have manufactured the bomb and we have released, plus the odd slip of genocide, but we have also done good things. Middle Carr book is dedicated to listing all the scientific studies that corroborate the theory of brain plasticity. According to their findings, the human brain is remarkably susceptible to changes in neural circuits (anatomical even) as the use made of it. If I do play chess a brain to play chess, while for fry an egg can be a big hand. If you are a musician illuminates an area of \u200b\u200bthe brain that remains off for the rest of the non-musical brain. If you read books spark some paths of neurons, and if you read on the Web, according to some studies highlighting Carr, other neural circuits are formed that apparently have more to do with the speed of perception of stimuli with concentration and reflective reading.
The problem is not the time you devote to the network and not spent reading books. For Carr the problem is that becoming a brain browser can do with it shortly afterward to remove oil from heavy read, or simply reading concentrated. He says: " Google does, literally, to make our money distraction. "[p. 193]
The truth is that Google wants to move. The less you stand on one page less potential for advertising clicks.
That Google is not the Red Cross, dammit. It is already known. But neither the Red Cross Red Cross.
makes me laugh the following passage. I write it down, even Carr's appointment is a such a George Dyson, who is invited to the Googleplex to give a lecture in memory of Jon Von Neuman, a physicist at Princeton in 1945, based on the work of Alan Turing, produced the first blueprint for a modern computer. In the previous sentence and are the parents of computing. Two freaks. Seeing Google's headquarters Dyson writes: " I found the friendly atmosphere almost overwhelming. Happy breed dogs running in slow motion between the sprinklers watered the grass. People waving and smiling, toys everywhere. He immediately suspected that unimaginable evil was happening in Somewhere in the dark corners. If the devil came to earth, what better place to hide was going to find? "
is read much faster today, true. But that's not bad, I need not read every word, only to see them and just me from above, not line by line. But especially books like Carr, halfway between the scientific article, the confessional tale of a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous and the piercing cry of crazy people who sticks his head out the window to announce the arrival of the apocalypse.
Some do not read, they see the page, which drafted it. He even understands what they say.
Say Internet is a world of doom if you do not drugs, not drink, do not you just fuck and have no desire to read books. That is, if between being alive or dead does not make much difference. If you have nothing, at least the Internet is something. Or everything. That's bad. As a planet to live is a bit of a mess. For a new decent read on the Web to find we spend hours throwing garbage.
it worth? Everyone who thinks there and do what you want.
For Carr the problem is not that computers will one day cease to be " dumber than a cork " as we become machines, brains without emotions who think click click. Further experiments to prove that, put in the book. That if we are to silicon, that if you do not sweat if not we run out of ADSL. Finally, we will see, because right now we can only speak of scientific data to the side throwing each other.
What seems obvious is this: " More can mean less knowledge" [p. 257].
Dust to McLuhan.
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