POL113H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3-4: Time Shifting, Switching Barriers
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Nicholas carr: is the internet making us stupid. The spoken word was the rst technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in oder to grasp it in a new way. - marshall mcluhan. You can trace the in uence of technology and tools on the way human beings think all the way back since time. We rarely see the map as a tool as its common. But back in the day, people understood where they were going through their sensory perception by what they saw around them. When you are introduced to a map, you get a abstract representation of space and picture of space. But this new way of technology changed the way people think. It gave us in general a more abstract mind. We began to pay more attention to the abstract patterns. Peoples perception of time was as purely as a natural ow.
