Always on, always connected, always transacting. Is this a good thing?
In a 2003 presentation (How to Use Computers and the Internet in Daily Transactions) I concluded with the words in the title. This morning brings us more musings on technology by Nicholas Carr, Does the Internet Make You Dumber?
Carr, as he always does, provokes us to examine our assumptions and to question accepted wisdom. As educators, we may bemoan the open smart phones and laptops in our classes and rightly so for some of the reasons given in the Carr article. But as citizens of the larger world, and mindful of the recent major mishaps associated with the deadly combination of technology-cum-creativity-cum-hubris, our concerns should be broader.
James Drogan
This post refers to a Wall Street Journal article based on The Shallows by Nicholas Carr. For another, somewhat contrasting point of view of Carr's work see Our Cluttered Minds from the today's New York Times Book Revew.
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