August 2010
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Digital and the Brain
Nature of the medium
08.17.10 | Permalink | 2 Comments[Check the entire Digital and the Brain series] The nature of the medium can be more powerful force in the world than the content of the messages that pass through it. – Marshall McLuhan It never ceases to amaze me how perfectly McLuhan’s theories from the 1950s apply to today’s world. I never wondered about [...]
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Digital and the Brain
Carr. Shirky. Cut it out!
08.17.10 | Permalink | 2 Comments[Check the entire Digital and the Brain series] A lot of people seem to be obsessed with all this media around us and how that’s affecting our brain. This was in no way sudden. One early sign was how neurobiology started getting more coverage in rather mainstream media two years ago. Then Barnes & Noble [...]
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Culture, Thinking
Bieber fever and amorphous communities
08.02.10 | Permalink | 8 CommentsJustin Bieber is all set to write a book, play himself in a 3-D movie and rule the charts for (hopefully) a couple of years – and he knows how to escape on a segway. Teenage heartthrobs and the associated mass hysteria are not new phenomena. This Beatles video speaks for itself. I am in [...]
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