Nicholas Carr is the author of The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains.
The big danger with the internet is it puts all the emphasis on skimming and scanning and fast processing, and puts very little emphasis on contemplation and reflection and introspection.
Like Small, Carr argues that a certain kind of creativity is lost there.
The type of creativity that allows us to think in new ways, original ways, that allows us to go against the grain of the common wisdom and what everybody else is saying, that does require a deep kind of personal attentiveness. And thats what the internet and other modern technologies seem to be stealing from us.
Old stick-in-the-mud thinking or legitimate concern?
Whatever the case, Carr and Smalls ideas seem to have hit a nerve, so to speak.
The blogosphere has the full spectrum of opinions about the internet and creative thought.
But Gary Small says we dont need to throw out the baby with the bath water.
Its not all good and its not all bad. In fact, we could argue that the new technology allows us to be more creative, to collaborate with people who we wouldnt ordinarily collaborate with, and come up with new ideas, and use the technology to accelerate those new discoveries.
Small says the key is not to let your neurons get addicted to techno stimulation.
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