interesting article that should make us think much and many: (link to the original end)
Do you read the interesting articles that do not remember anything after? Zapeas from link to link and forget about where or why you started? Do you lose interest after the third paragraph? Have you changed the fiction of the test or more than six months since I read a book? You're going in the morning on Facebook, Twenty, Twitter, Flickr, eBay, Tumblr, Myspace or Youtube ? Do you check the mailbox constantly? Do you eat at the computer?
If the answer to three or more of these questions is yes, welcome to club: Internet has made you hyper. If you do not slow down and start reading books again, I condemn a model of shallow thinking, based on snap decisions and lack of concentration.
That's what it says Nicholas Carr, a member of the League All Star journalist and recent New Economy author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains , explaining that our habits on the Internet are the sufficiently systematic, repetitive and instantaneous for refurnishing our map neuronal and reprogram our thinking process almost irreversible. When we read in Red, Carr explains, our brain is too busy deciding whether or not click on links, ignoring the ads and valuing the interests of other holders to pay attention to what you read, not to mention the constant interruption of our update notices (RSS, Email, SMS, etc). The second paragraph we become impatient because the browser will reward you with delicious endorphins every time we discover something new, even irrelevant. Or, in psychiatric language, whenever we click a link received a sardine. Read more than ever but we did not find anything, because, as does the star of Mad Men and just we like the principles of things. All that does not provide the instant gratification of freshness, the rush of novelty and the speed of an introduction we unbearably boring.
Some people think that Carr is a Luddite viejuno and by letting technology rule on our habits of work and leisure, increase our ability to use this technology, we are better in Google, faster finding what they seek, more effective finding needles in the hay. What to know when you can find? But in this mad race, Carr says, we sacrifice our ability to do something with that information, leaving Cognitive processes that came to us with the popularity of the book and have to do with the acquisition knowledge, creativity, critical thinking, originality, analysis and reflection.
Paradoxically, The Shallows read in a whisper because he jumps in the history of the last book in neurology like going to tab tab, and run well the ability to tell you something you already feel that is true, the browser is running the best years of our lives and all what was important, intimate, reflective, less so now, all what was fitting, popular, social-has become essential. But the tone is also uncomfortably familiar: if a technology alters our social paradigms, someone gets dizzy and vomited in the car. Jose Luis Brea
held, in its very essential cultura_RAM (Gedisa, 2007), the transition from a ROM (storage, hard drive, static) to RAM (process, active, interaction, production and analysis) where all the monuments of knowledge fall overthrown by "the power load of the present moment." But Jose Luis Brea did not spend even a tenth of the time surfing that I pass. Will
Internet is like everything: if you spend is not worth .
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