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Perennial SearcherJuly 23, 2008 Stoopid . . . Why The Google Generation Isn’t as Smart as it ThinksThis editorial from the Times Online (UK) seems like a companion piece to Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”. The author Bryan Appleyard claims that companies such as Microsoft, Google, Intel, and IBM are the Great Distractors of our epoch. Yet these giant corporations recognize the problem and impact of technology . . . so much so that they’ve formed the Information Overload Research Group. Appleyard is no technophobe. Rather, he’s a fellow struggler, trying to survive and thrive in the data deluge of phone calls, emails, text alerts, etc. Overall, this piece asks important questions about multitasking, productivity, attention, cognition, and distraction. It seems appropriate to now quote T.S. Eliot: “Where is the Life we have lost in living? posted by Brian at 9:02 am | Comments (0) No Comments »RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI Leave a comment
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