"So you think you are thinking?"- my question to you
I recently read a story adapted from the Book The Shallows by Nicholas Carr. It ends with this disturbing paragraph:
"What we are experiencing is, in metaphoric sense, a reversal of the early trajectory of civilization: We are evolving from cultivators of personal knowledge into hunters and gatherers in the electronic data forest(web). In the process, we seem fated to sacrifice much of what makes our minds so interesting"
WOW! We are no longer cultivating knowledge. The way I read it, we are not becoming better selves. We are not evolving. We are not adding pieces to our toolbox just in case we need them in the future.
I also read into it that we are merely surviving day to day by gathering the necessary information, usually through the web, to just get through our jobs. Quick and dirty.
Scary!
Today's question is:
"When is the last time you read just for the sake of developing yourself?"
I recently read a story adapted from the Book The Shallows by Nicholas Carr. It ends with this disturbing paragraph:
"What we are experiencing is, in metaphoric sense, a reversal of the early trajectory of civilization: We are evolving from cultivators of personal knowledge into hunters and gatherers in the electronic data forest(web). In the process, we seem fated to sacrifice much of what makes our minds so interesting"
WOW! We are no longer cultivating knowledge. The way I read it, we are not becoming better selves. We are not evolving. We are not adding pieces to our toolbox just in case we need them in the future.
I also read into it that we are merely surviving day to day by gathering the necessary information, usually through the web, to just get through our jobs. Quick and dirty.
Scary!
Today's question is:
"When is the last time you read just for the sake of developing yourself?"
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