Is the web making us stupid? Mindless scrolling, lack of concentration, memory shift from ability of easy lookup instead of memorization, lower comprehension, or is this just adaptation to how things are now? IMO-it's how we choose to use it
#psychsocialmedia #nicholascarr
die darauf abzielen, diejenigen mit kontroversen Ansichten zum Schweigen zu bringen, und nun auch ihre Fähigkeit, Sprache zu manipulieren, bieten Social-Media-Plattformen mächtige Werkzeuge für die Etablierung und Durchsetzung kultureller und politischer Orthodoxie.« 3/3
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»People take facts as metaphors; computers take metaphors as facts.« #NicholasCarr
Sie werden durch die von ihnen selbst geschaffenen Bedingungen der Ablenkung und Dysfunktion geschützt. Politiker gehen in die sozialen Medien, um ihre Verachtung für die sozialen Medien zum Ausdruck zu bringen und achten dann auf die Anzahl der Likes.« 2/2
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»The public | interest is being interpreted in secret, by large corporations that see the public not as a polity but as a customer base. We’ve outsorced the stewardship of speech to Big Tech.«
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It yokes together in an obscene comparison two events of radically different scale and import. And yet, in his callous way, Zuckerberg articulated the essence of content collapse. Social media renders category errors obsolete because it renders categories obsolete.« 2/2
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»… a malevolent coxscomb with a tweeting habit«. #NicholasCarr in seinem Buch Superbloom über #DonaldTrump. Ist das bald strafbar? Bekommt man eines Tages Besuch von spaßbefreiten MAGAschisten?
as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence.« 2/2
#NicholasCarr »The Shallows. How the internet is changing the way we think, read and remember«. (2010)
We may discover that the gates maintained by our new gatekeepers are narrower than ever.« 2/2
#NicholasCarr 2015 (Politico Magazine)
The Trump campaign may have qualities of farce, but it also suggests that a social media candidate, passionate yet hollow, could be a perfect vessel for a cult of personality.« #NicholasCarr 2015
#NicholasCarr 2015 über Trump:
»A natural-born troll, adept at issuing inflammatory bulletins at opportune moments, he's the first candidate optimized for the Google News algorithm. … What Trump understands is that the best way to dominate the online discussion is not to inform but to provoke. 1/2
we may have failed in our attempt to use computers to establish a new Eden on Earth, but at least we still have the power to lay everything to waste.« #NicholasCarr
Recently read an older article called 'Is Google Making Us Stupid?'.
It's fascinating.
Its theme is more relevant in the age of AI than ever (Google 'generative AI impact on cognitive skills'), and I highly recommend checking it out if you haven't!
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Friction in instruction prompts deeper thinking = desirable difficulty. Our Janus dilemma is that resistance works both ways. "Once people adapt to greater efficiency in any practice or process, reductions in efficiency, whatever the rationale, feel intolerable." #NicholasCarr
We = lawyers. Not sure I agree. RT @jasnwilsn: Updated: #ABATECHSHOW and the #NicholasCarr Keynote (We are doomed!) www.jasnwilsn.com/2015/04/16/aba-techshow-...
