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Albert: Re: time-and-space constraints
Forum Post, December, 02 2010
Michael Albert
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Hi, > I also feel like the internet has decimated my attention span. Funny, at the moment, it is decimating my schedules - he he.... > But I wonder about two things: > - The technology is rela...
Albert: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Forum Post, December, 02 2010
Michael Albert
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Andrej, Zerzan says he looks around and see that workplaces pollute nearly infinitely and employ wage slaves - so we should get rid of workplaces. And then he says things even more absurd... using the same illogic. What he could sensibly say is,...
Tamburini: time-and-space constraints
Forum Post, December, 02 2010
Matteo Tamburini
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I also feel like the internet has decimated my attention span. But I wonder about two things: - The technology is relatively cheap (so that even some poor people in this country have access to it) but compared to the billions on the planet, I thi...
Albert: Re: Mixed reactions
Forum Post, December, 02 2010
Michael Albert
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Hi Marcelo, > I believe I have mixed reactions to this post, and therefore not haven't been able to position my thoughts properly on this subject yet. However, some things I believe social networking is good for are being misse...
Spannos: Re: Reply to Chris....
Forum Post, December, 02 2010
Chris Spannos
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Ø Chris, Ø About my worries concerning the effects of Facebook on civilization - you think it is primitivist. Hmmmm...as you are sitting next to me - I suspect you know I am not of that ilk. So why ...
Albert: Re: Frontal Lobes
Forum Post, December, 02 2010
Michael Albert
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Brian, Hi. I don't know enough about fontal lobes - my guess is they are in the front and that's the end of my knowledge - to comment on observations about them. I suspect you are quite right that TV, whateve...
Albert: Re: Re: Facebook Vs Civilization
Forum Post, December, 02 2010
Michael Albert
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Justin, Hi. I hope you are doing well! Your report of your own experience is disturbing in ratifying the views of the blog. I would be rather be wrong about all this, than right. What you say about work adding to...
Grubacic: Re: Re: Re:
Forum Post, December, 02 2010
Andrej Grubacic
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Mike, you sound like John Zerzan. I just got myself a TV with a facebook application, i kid you not. It also has a twitter option. I will tweet you from my TV. The thought makes me feel chipper.
Small: Frontal Lobes
Forum Post, December, 01 2010
Brian Small
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I heard that multi-tasking is bad for the frontal lobes form someone that attends conferences about Learning and the Brain. Douglas Rushkoff was just on GritTV talking about Programming or Being Programmed. I only got halfway through the G...
Ribeiro: Mixed reactions
Forum Post, December, 01 2010
Marcelo Ribeiro
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I believe I have mixed reactions to this post, and therefore not haven't been able to position my thoughts properly on this subject yet. However, some things I believe social networking is good for are being missed by you, Michael, and I will ...
George: Re: Facebook Vs Civilization
Forum Post, December, 01 2010
Justin George
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Michael, I totally agree. Even while reading this blog, I jumped to another page and then back, not really consciously either, but reflexively. I have noticed my attention span, my ability to comprehend, to concentrate seriously deteriorating. I...
Albert: Re: Re:
Forum Post, December, 01 2010
Michael Albert
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> It seems like of this is testable, but I haven't looked around very hard yet. There is a book out recently claiming to have some serious testing - looking at brain scans of people using and not using the internet for a few weeks...
Albert: Reply to Chris....
Forum Post, December, 01 2010
Michael Albert
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Chris, About my worries concerning the effects of Facebook on civilization - you think it is primitivist. Hmmmm...as you are sitting next to me - I suspect you know I am not of that ilk. So why say it? As to my saying what ...
Lapinel: Re:
Forum Post, December, 01 2010
Elliott Lapinel
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It seems like of this is testable, but I haven't looked around very hard yet. But my intuition tells me that T.V. does have the potential to hurt one's attention span, and it seems like the internet has even more potential to...
Spannos:
Forum Post, December, 01 2010
Chris Spannos
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Ø At the risk of pissing off a lot of friends, I have become steadily more concerned about Facebook to the point where I am beginning to feel that coupled with instant messaging and certain aspects of the world wide web, Faceb...
Marty: Re: Re: Re: Re: My reaction isn't mixed!
Forum Post, December, 01 2010
David Marty
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Ho Joe, My answer would be that if you were only a skilled person with no ideology it would require too much energy from you to be able to 1) do the job well and at the same time 2) be able to deal with the bullshit. So it is much easier to be an...
Emersberger: Re: Re: Re: My reaction isn't mixed!
Forum Post, November, 30 2010
Joe Emersberger
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Justin You say "I guess a part of me believed that they were more honest among themselves than they were with us - but even their cables to each other contain lots of propaganda, which I suppose is just a sign that their world views run d...
Marty: Re: My reaction isn't mixed!
Forum Post, November, 30 2010
David Marty
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Hi Chris and Justin, Interesting post (clicked on it from FB). I basically agree with both of you with nuances and comments I'd like to add. My take on this is that Wikileaks has, I'm speculating now, calculated the cost/advantage of al...
Spannos: Re: Re: Re: My reaction isn't mixed!
Forum Post, November, 30 2010
Chris Spannos
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I think my use of the word "selective" was not accurate because I also agree with releasing all cables. What I was driving at, is that, in this first round of cables released they should have somehow created a way ...
George: Re: Re: Re: My reaction isn't mixed!
Forum Post, November, 29 2010
Justin George
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"On a related note, I naturally went straight to the US-Tel Aviv cables, and was sort of disappointed to see how ideological they were. I guess a part of me believed that they were more honest among themselves than they were with us - but eve...
