Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future
John Brockman
Language: English
Pages: 448
ISBN: B0064X8IMO
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
How is the internet changing the way you think? That is one of the dominant questions of our time, one which affects almost every aspect of our life and future. And it's exactly what John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to more than 150 of the world's most influential minds. Brilliant, farsighted, and fascinating, Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? is an essential guide to the Net-based world.
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Edge is a conversation, and “we” responses tend to come across like expert papers, public pronouncements, or talks delivered from a stage.) The art of a good question is to find a balance between the abstract and the personal, to ask a question that has many answers—or at least a question to which you don’t know the answer. A good question encourages answers that are grounded in experience but bigger than any experience alone. I wanted Edge’s contributors to think about the Internet, which.
Time perception that I’ve yet to fully absorb. Its long-term effect on me is to heighten my worry about the fate of the middle classes (doomed) as well as to make me wonder about the future of homogeneous bourgeois thinking (also doomed, as we turn into one great big college town populated entirely by eccentrics—a great big Austin, Texas). The Internet forces me to renegotiate my relationship to the celebrity dimension of pop culture. There are too many celebrities now, and they all cancel each.
Using a cell phone, isolated people are essentially smileless, laughless, and speechless. (We confirmed the obvious because the obvious is sometimes wrong.) Constant, emotionally rewarding vocal contact with select, distant conversants is a significant contributor to the worldwide commercial success of cell phones. Radio comedy and drama further demonstrate the power of a purely auditory medium, even when directed one-way from performer to audience. It occurred to me that the ability to contact.
Possibilities, of polarization in virtual groups. Electronic communication and social networking enable Tea Partiers, global warming deniers, and conspiracy theorists to isolate themselves and find support for their shared ideas and suspicions. As the Internet connects the like-minded and pools their ideas, white supremacists may become more racist, Obama despisers more hostile, and militia members more terror-prone (thus limiting our power to halt terrorism by conquering a place). In the echo.