What is the internet doing for you lately? Tell me. Or just think about it. – Ilene
The Internet Makes me Pee LESS
Courtesy of Howard Lindzon
There is a useless debate on Le Web over Le Years whether the internet makes you smarter or dumber . Let me chine in on that:
COULD. CARE. LESS
I know what Le Web does for me. I hold my pee in longer. It could be my age and gynormous prostate but I think it’s engagement. I sit, I read, I am engaged, I hold in a pee.
Clay Shirky has the important stuff on the subject of ’smarter or dumber’:
The past was not as golden, nor is the present as tawdry, as the pessimists suggest, but the only thing really worth arguing about is the future. It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity. We are now witnessing the rapid stress of older institutions accompanied by the slow and fitful development of cultural alternatives. Just as required education was a response to print, using the Internet well will require new cultural institutions as well, not just new technologies.
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