first to throw the stone in a pigeon (so to speak, because it is old news, since the contrast with Thamus Thot, at least to believe in Plato's Phaedrus) was in Nicholas Carr Is Google making us stupid ? ('The Atlantic Magazine, July-August 2008) who created media scandal, but then, in recent times, beginning with Frank Schirrmacher of the newfound freedom. How to (continue to) think in the digital age (Code Publishing, 2010) and through the special issue Internet ergo sum of "The Internationale" of January 29, 2010, is all of a sudden revival comments from Clay Shirky with Does the Internet make you smarter? ('The Saturday Essay, "June 4, 2010) to Nick Bilton interviewed by Kayla Webley in Why the Internet Is not making us stupid (Time, October 7, 2010), ending with" grand old man " Howard Rheingold (inventor of the term "virtual community") that, by cutting the head of the bull, teaches how to escape the stupidity bending technology to their own ends, with How I use Twitter, Search, Delicious Diigo, DevonThink, Scrivener to find , refine, organize information -> knowledge that creates an lesson via streaming screenr.com .
A "Informavores rex" as we are becoming, still lives, stupidity or less, according to Schirrmacher, with a dark side of himself: the anxiety of the impossible pursuit to acquire information, digest and share with increasingly frantic, so that "we are no longer mentally up to the commitments of our time" because the mind (but here and always confused with the brain) is induced to distraction due to the proliferation of stimuli, the enemies of concentration and, more importantly, the meditation. Even Pavlov, observe, showed how the recurrence of the stimulus did decrease the intensity of the response and, conversely, the Hesychasts needs is the continuous repetition of a few careful words, always the same for ever ... but now the function fantasizing (which is typical of Zolla puppet ) becomes wild and uncontrollable and prevail over those images, because they do not really confined to a body. It would, insists Schirrmacher, more concise : a sort of akin to Taylorism digital linear and track tasks of the microprocessor, so when "our attention has been eaten up 'as we tend to behave according to a program, no longer able to selecting relevant information, but acting according to the script that process chunk elementary ( see "The Librarian," De Nuptiis ... under Mapping ) 'I am neither the Internet nor the technology to restrict or stupefy the people, but the anxiety of losing control and consequently to act according to a script. "
The solution? Insist to continue in the direction indicated by Wreckert years ago and Ferguson, that is, increasing the difference between man and machine, because "no machine can be made to function in the Way That a human does, Because of the different hardware of the stuff" .. .
Gabriella Longo, informivori Animals. The head that will not sustain the pace of technology , "Apogeonline," October 15, 2010.
[pre-print for "The Librarian", III series, ISSN 11250992, 3-4/2010]
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