There is a very interesting and disturbing trend to unchecked exhuberance for all things computer-related. PBS recently aired a documentary called Digital Nation, which among other things, showed how Korea is now feeling the effects of Internet addiction. Also of interest in the show was the interesting study done at MIT. If MIT grads function at diminished cacpacity while 'multitasking', where does this leave the continual partially connected secondary school students awash in a sea of information they are unable to decode. I am indebted to Chris Lott who is not only a great creative and thought-provoking blogger, but who also challenges the accepted wisdom of the masses when it comes to the wholesale acceptance of technology without questioning existing power structures that dominate all societies, corporatist, captialism and socialist alike.
http://chrislott.org/story/concentration-and-imagination-in-the-digital-age/
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