CMN 216 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Knowledge Worker, Staccato
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For carr, it is harder to stay focused even on deep reading (something that has come naturally for him) Problem is being online, searching and surfing the databases of the. Although now, research can be a lot quicker. The net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the info that flows into mind. Many advantages to having such a large store of info the perfect recall of silicon memory can be an enormous boon to thinking it helps thinking. Marshall mcluhan pointed out in 1960s media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. What the net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles.
