Comments on: How is the internet changing the way you think? http://blog.longnow.org/2010/01/11/how-is-the-internet-changing-the-way-you-think/ The Official Weblog of The Long Now Foundation and Friends Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Notdeadyet77 http://blog.longnow.org/2010/01/11/how-is-the-internet-changing-the-way-you-think/comment-page-1/#comment-21929 Notdeadyet77 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:47:53 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/?p=1431#comment-21929 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. 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.

]]> By: David http://blog.longnow.org/2010/01/11/how-is-the-internet-changing-the-way-you-think/comment-page-1/#comment-13830 David Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:16:08 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/?p=1431#comment-13830 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 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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