The Internetz -- We Haz Wasting It

[Darren Dirt]

tru.

[Lazybones]

Well you can use it for both it doesn't have to be one or the other.

[Mr. Analog]

It blows my mind that my dad went from bringing coal to school to scruising facebook on his smartphone...

[Darren Dirt]

just found this [related] video (NEW! May 6, 2013) about how the Internet is making everyone dumb[er]...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKaWJ72x1rI#t=2m4s *


WARNING: the link above is to a video... on the Internet.




* from Epipheo.TV -- "This project is designed to do one thing: extract life-changing epiphanies from some of the world's top thought-leaders and make them accessible to everyone." (i.e. make everyone SMARTER #IronicAintIt )

[Mr. Analog]

Literacy is making people dumber, I mean they don't have to remember anything anymore, they can just write it down and read it later!!

[Darren Dirt]

Literacy is making people dumber, I mean they don't have to remember anything anymore, they can just write it down and read it later!!

ICWUDT.

True, kinda -- but not nearly at the efficiency/rate of mobile high-speed internet!

[Thorin]

#ironicaintit

Losing punctuation makes communicating ideas much more difficult than before.  For instance, I spent about three minutes trying to figure out what a "Cain Tit" is - my brain just automatically picked out "tit" as the word at the end of that hashtag.

Beyond that, the problem with the internet is not that there's a lot of information, but rather that there's a lot of data.  Data is raw, information is refined.  Authors generally take data and turn it into information, and then we read the books and we gain the information without having to have sifted through all the data.  Nowadays we have near-instant access to the data, and we have to sift through it all ourselves.

Of course we frequently don't sift through and parse it well enough and thus frequently gain just enough knowledge (data) to be dangerous.

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I think the analytics software I work on has been seeping into my subconscious.