Intriguing Thoughts

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Invisible College – Clay Shirky

6 thoughts on “Intriguing Thoughts

  1. Mind is saturation soup, one seed crystal: emergent song. Forked paths tuning. Tallis motets up spiralling chimneys. Drowning out, diving down, profanity, cacophany, epiphany. But, but, but, to do it all unplugged….!

  2. with pleasure! And it’s chock-full of stimulating delights:
    Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The Net’s Impact on Our Minds and Future – edited by John Brockman – HarperCollins, 2011 978-0062020444

  3. nannus's avatar nannus

    Thank you.
    Yes I think it does. The way we think is part of culture, it is to a large extent, I think, not following fixed laws of the brain but programmed and changable “laws” of culture. Inventions that change the way we store, process and transport information have a strong impact (writing, printing and above all the internet).

"A word is a bridge thrown between myself and an other - a territory shared by both" - M. Bakhtin