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Is it Google, or is it us? Reading, writing and the Web
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The July issue of The Atlantic.
That's where Nicholas Carr has a cover story - "Is Google Making Us Stoopid?: What the Internet is doing to our brains" - that notes how he worries about the effect new technologies have on folks, and whether advances in technologies are really advancements at all.
It's not much about Google, despite the headline. It's a lot about what the Web has done to reading and writing.
We don't read, we skim. We don't write, we text.
Carr is a freely admitted skeptic of technologies. I like to embrace new technologies.
I say computers have made writing easier. Certainly faster. Although it's rarely as easy anymore as simply opening, say, Microsoft Word - particularly if you're posting to the Web. Then you'd better know how to use a Web editor.
But is that a bad thing? I'm all for learning new skills. And that doesn't mean you have to forget the old ones.
I'll agree with Carr on this - computers shouldn't run our lives (I wasn't thrilled when they started running our cars). They can be a tool (though not necessarily a hammer). And yes, we shouldn't rely on them too much.
But if I'd had the Internet back when I was writing those term papers ...
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