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Technology: A relationship between human and machine

Technology: A relationship between human and machine. Does the Internet Make You Dumber ? Nicolas Carr, Wall Street Journal, June 5 2010 as in Nancy E. Dolahite and Julie Haun, Sourcework p 196-198. Internet – constant distractions and interruptions – scattered and superficial thinkers

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Technology: A relationship between human and machine

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  1. Technology: A relationship between human and machine

  2. Does the Internet Make You Dumber ?Nicolas Carr, Wall Street Journal, June 5 2010 as in Nancy E. Dolahite and Julie Haun, Sourcework p 196-198 • Internet – constant distractions and interruptions – scattered and superficial thinkers • Text with links < traditional linear text • Multimedia presentations < sedate and focused manner • People with many tasks are less creative and productive than people who do one thing at a time

  3. Patricia Greenfield: every medium develops some cognitive skills at the expense of others • Cornell University experiment: student with internet-connected laptop much worse on a subsequent test of how well they retained the lecture’s content • Stanford University experiment: heavy multi tasker performed poorly on various cognitive tests • Michael Merzenich: the cellular structure of human brain adapts to the tools they use. ?

  4. Mind Over Mass MediaSteven Pinker, The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/opinion/11Pinker.html?_r=1 • New forms of media have always caused moral panics • Power point reduces discourse to bullet point • Search engines lower human intelligence • Twitter shrinks human attention span • Reality • Comic books (1950’s) and video games (1990’s) are accused of turning juveniles into delinquents vs declining in crime records • Television, radios, and rock videos vs IQ score roses continuously

  5. Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons in “The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intentions Deceive Us” • The effects of experience are highly specific to the experiences themselves • Better at doing one thing but almost nothing else • Music doesn’t make people better at math, brain-training games don’t make people smarter • Solution: develop strategies of self-control rather then bemoan to technology • Knowledge is increasing exponentially; human brainpower and waking hours are not. Technologies help human to manage, search, and retrieve collective intellectual output at different scales.

  6. The Animatrixhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328832/ • Nine short animated stories – related with the Matrix Trilogy • The Second Renaissance part 1 & 2 • Human vs Machine • Machine has the “phyrric victory” • The birth of new “hybrid” generations

  7. Thank You http://raws.adc.rmit.edu.au/~e43102/blog2/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/evolution-man-computer.gif

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