[extropy-chat] No time to think?

[Dirk Bruere]

On 12/28/05, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> CNN has an article about the Age of Information Overload.
>
> <http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/12/26/information.everywhere.ap/index.html>
>
> With a few keystrokes, we'll soon be able to tap much of the world's
> knowledge. And we'll do it from nearly anywhere -- already, newer
> iPods can carry all your music, digital photos and such TV classics as
> "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" along with more contemporary prime-time
> fare.
>
> Will all this instantly accessible information make us much smarter,
> or simply more stressed? When can we break to think, absorb and ponder
> all this data?
>
> "If you fill every waking minute with more media, you never do any
> independent thinking," Nielsen said. "You may have all the specific
> pieces of information, but the higher level is knowledge and
> understanding. You don't have time for that reflection if it's being
> thrown at you at never-ending streams".
>
> End quotes.
> ---------------------
>
> This is what I see happening to the younger generation. They have an
> iPod playing music in their ears, while they read and send text
> messages on their mobile phone, almost oblivious to their surroundings
> or companions.
>
> Do they ever have a quiet time to actually think about things?
>

Not like our healthy generation who spent 6 hours a day watching TV and
listening to 'pop' on our 'transistor radios'.

Dirk
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