5 days ago
January 23, 2012Me: yes?
Emerson: I — I like music better.
kung fu grippe: Upon the playing of the Back to Work podcast during our school commute
That kid is harsh!
(Source: toldorknown)
Carr would land some shallow punches, but then everbody would join with Shirky. So, no contest.
What the Internet Means for How We Think About the World - Technology - The Atlantic
David Weinberger making clever internet jokes in promotion of his new book, Too Big to Know. He goes on to make some interesting points about technodeterminism in Carr’s, Shirky’s and his own work.
(via mediology)
If you spend most of your time on some passive activity that distracts you from other activities you could be doing, you’re not going to accomplish many things in life. And you’re definitely not going to make any money while sitting on the couch flipping channels. You might be entertained, culturally enlightened by watching Mad Men, and even theoretically learning something by watching PBS, but you will still be not doing something. To reference and paraphrase Clay Shirky in a different context, the problem with Television is that it doesn’t have a mouse or a keyboard.


