There is something I’ve noticed for a while. I’ve thought about it quite a bit, without a clear resolve. It is a question of information and human relations. We live in a world where people have huge amounts of information at their disposal. With such immediate and constant access that smartphones and always-on-broadband-internet gives us, [...]
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where’d my brain go? || or a discussion of nicholas carr’s the shallows
Wednesday, 4 May 2011
In my latest library perusing I came across Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. I’d originally heard of it from Robb Ryerse who had read it a few months back and blogged about it. I find the whole topic of how technology and media affect us all very interesting. [...]
internet not really dangerous
Wednesday, 14 January 2009
Well like so much of the social sciences, it has finally been proven what so many have already know—the internet isn’t really that dangerous for children after all. Child predators aren’t lurking around every proverbial html corner, waiting to snatch every child which clicks on a link for free candy & cute kittens and puppies. [...]