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Re: Article: "Is Google Making Us Stoopid?" from TheAtlantic.com
by Will Evans-3
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There are so many ways in which this article is bad. Bad research, bad
writing, faulty conclusions based on shakey premises. The title alone should
shy people away - it's sensationalistic. First - the author has no ability
to discern the difference between intellect/intelligence and literacy, or
intelligence and focus. This is not merely a matter of semantics. To use the
word 'stupid' implies that google indeed reduces I.Q. yet the author never
discusses intelligence anywhere in the article - he discusses focus, and
literacy. Further, his issue is not with Google qua Google - but with
Hypertext. Very, very different things. A well researched criticism of
hypertext as a medium, and it's effects on cognition would have been
interesting. This was not.
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Sebi Tauciuc <stauciuc@...> wrote:
> Too long for me. Gave up reading up after two paragraphs. Does this prove
> the article's point?
>
> Sebi
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Jackie O'Hare <Jackie@...>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > "Incidentally, I found the article too wordy for the ideas it described,
> > but emotionally satisfying (just like I found 'War and Peace' too wordy,
> > when I have read it long time ago)."
> > ----------------------
> >
> > I totally agree. I found myself wondering whether it was done
> > intentionally - as though the author was providing an example of the
> > types of articles that we are inclined to glean for meaning. It seemed
> > a little "meta" in that way.
> >
> > I also found reading this article online a very interesting experience.
> > I wonder how the experience of reading it would be different if you were
> > reading the print article in the physical magazine.
> >
> >
> >
> --
> Sergiu Sebastian Tauciuc
> http://www.sergiutauciuc.ro/en/
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writing, faulty conclusions based on shakey premises. The title alone should
shy people away - it's sensationalistic. First - the author has no ability
to discern the difference between intellect/intelligence and literacy, or
intelligence and focus. This is not merely a matter of semantics. To use the
word 'stupid' implies that google indeed reduces I.Q. yet the author never
discusses intelligence anywhere in the article - he discusses focus, and
literacy. Further, his issue is not with Google qua Google - but with
Hypertext. Very, very different things. A well researched criticism of
hypertext as a medium, and it's effects on cognition would have been
interesting. This was not.
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Sebi Tauciuc <stauciuc@...> wrote:
> Too long for me. Gave up reading up after two paragraphs. Does this prove
> the article's point?
>
> Sebi
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Jackie O'Hare <Jackie@...>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > "Incidentally, I found the article too wordy for the ideas it described,
> > but emotionally satisfying (just like I found 'War and Peace' too wordy,
> > when I have read it long time ago)."
> > ----------------------
> >
> > I totally agree. I found myself wondering whether it was done
> > intentionally - as though the author was providing an example of the
> > types of articles that we are inclined to glean for meaning. It seemed
> > a little "meta" in that way.
> >
> > I also found reading this article online a very interesting experience.
> > I wonder how the experience of reading it would be different if you were
> > reading the print article in the physical magazine.
> >
> >
> >
> --
> Sergiu Sebastian Tauciuc
> http://www.sergiutauciuc.ro/en/
> ________________________________________________________________
> Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!
> To post to this list ....... discuss@...
> Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe
> List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines
> List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
>
--
~ will
"Where you innovate, how you innovate,
and what you innovate are design problems"
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Will Evans | User Experience Architect
tel +1.617.281.1281 | will@...
twitter: https://twitter.com/semanticwill
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
________________________________________________________________
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