That article was too long.


I couldn't finish it.

He has a point.
On the other hand his research on the issue is too concentrated on the internet. Maybe the internet has the effects he is talking about, maybe something else. How many movies did he watch lately I wonder. The stile of movies has changed a lot lately. Most people I know can not sit through Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. They can not immerse themselves in it just as writer of the article has problems immersing himself in a good book. The new movies are faster. The stile of cuts changed, etc... Even if you compare cartoons with the older cartoons you will see the change. Movies threat us lately as if our attention span was cca 10 seconds or less.
I still read a lot and use the internet a lot too.
Just because you can not immerse yourself in an internet article does not mean you changed. Hey the internet is full of boring crap, self acclaimed authors post more and more worthless and lengthy material. Nicholas Carr's article might be a good example of this.

The case in point ;)

This comment was too long.

I couldn't finish it.

;)

Your reply was too long I could not finish it. It seems I am too a writer not a reader.

can someone just sum this up for me in 20 words or less? thanks

You google therefore you are stoopid

ok?

Ah. thx.

From the article:Language has become more noticeably "spin-heavy", especially in the past decade. We are left to decide what is a lie and what is not. Personally, when making a decision on which path to take, I sometimes think back to a time when Bucky Fuller was my role model ... below are some of his quotes I have saved:

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Don't fight forces, use them.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

Man knows so much and does so little.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

Tension is the great integrity.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

Truth is a tendency.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

I understand where they are coming from. I think that we are conditioning ourselves in such a way that causes us to expect instant information rather than a long drawn out discovery. Because of technology everything is faster than it was in the past. However, since the world is faster it is expected of us to be fast as well. If you're not, well, then you fall behind.
I do not see this as a bad thing. Conditioning ourselves to be quick and decisive are effective tools in accomplishing greater things. The one problem I see with it is that people are beginning to cross the line as to how much they can take on and what they should let go. If we keep heading down this path everyone will be mediocre at everything and we'll all be drugged up with adderall to keep our minds focused.
Cyborg people is not very appealing to me.

I was already stupid.