How is the internet changing the way you think?

January 11th, 02010 by Austin Brown

John Brockman’s Edge has posted the responses from its members to their Annual Question. This year they wanted to know, “How is the internet changing the way you think?”

There are over 160 short essays from members of ‘The Third Culture,’ or “those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are.”

There are quite a few Long Now Foundation Board Members that have contributed as well as plenty of SALT speakers, past and present. Here’s a list with links to their thoughts on how the internet is changing their thoughts:

Long Now Foundation Board Members:

Long Now Seminar Speakers:

This entry was posted on Monday, January 11th, 02010 at 1:46 pm and is filed under Futures, Long Term Thinking, Seminars, Technology.

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I loved reading these responses.

Some favorite excerpts are Kevin Kelly’s statement that “For every accepted piece of knowledge find, there is within easy reach someone who challenges the fact. Every fact has its anti-fact.”

“…as the Net provides free or cheap versions of things, ‘the authentic experience’ …becomes more valuable.” – Brian Eno

“Without a discipline of knowing what matters, we will merely amuse ourselves to death.” – Paul Saffo
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One way the Internet has enriched the way I think/communicate by allowing me to scatter-associate spontaneous thoughts that I can immediately begin to mine for additional related data. Or, when I am looking for an old kernel of an idea I have contemplated and associated with a specific word or event, the internet sometimes feels like an extension of my recall, but with greater speed and more precision. I can spontaneously word-associate and then refresh my memory.

How is the internet changing the way you think?

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