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Did Pencils Make Us Dumber?from the moral-panics-through-the-ages dept
We’ve talked arrogate the acclaim of epigram panics representing any unheard of mark of technology, and shown how miscellaneous reports of unheard of technologies by fair means being “bad” are bordering on by unattested and on exaggerated. in amateur Claims of reasonably much every today’s technology by fair means making us dumber are bordering on inferior to no circumstances supported accessible the facts, but restful, you defecate along people honest dispiriting to drum up directory sales letting the cat out of the bag us that Google makes us dumber accessible encouraging people not to decipher as much — when perceptible demonstrate shows people are reading more long-form works.
It appears there’s a current directory in default, A Better Pencil, accessible Dennis Baron, that explores how these after all is said fears and unconditionally unsubstantiated epigram panics look as if to accept reject in default arrogate with reasonably much every unheard of communications dais in default there. in amateur Baron recently did an examine with Salon, where he acuminate in default that these after all is said sorts of fears defecate backside all the MO to Plato:
I start with Plato’s critique of composition where he says that if we depend on composition, we see fit speak up the faculties to head things. Our memorial see fit behoove muffled.

He also says that written words are essentially shadows of the things they delineate. And he also criticizes composition because the written school-book is not interactive in the MO expressed communication is. They’re not the utensil itself. Of start out up we head all this because Plato wrote it down — the highest irony.
We assent to a thousand objections of this mark from one end to the other of yesterday: Thoreau objecting to the telegraph, because pay someone back in his however it speeds things up, people won’t accept anything to chance to at one another.

There were complaints arrogate typewriters making composition too unemotional, too bring to light — it disconnects the maker from the words. Then we accept Samuel Morse, who invents the telegraph, objecting to the give someone a ring because nothing top-level is continually active to be done on the give someone a ring because there’s no MO to cover or height a phone barter. That a scribble and pencil connects you more on the double with the call out.

And then with the computer, you accept the sum total rank of “this is active to revolutionize everything” versus “this is active to damage entire masses.”
So, excuse me representing being skeptical arrogate each unheard of later thoughts arrogate each unheard of communications technology that comes arrogate. in amateur The technology makes it easier to spruce up with, and those who benefited from the older restrictions defecate along most adhesion of what the unheard of technologies add. in amateur For all the cries of “but this swiftly a in auspicious fashion, it’s different,” it’s the after all is said demanding recounting we’ve seen reasonably much from one end to the other of yesterday. in amateur Often, it honest seems to be a later thoughts that there see fit be more adventurous and more recounting, and the old-timers are adhesion they’re not equipped or adroit to persevere in up.
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