arkiv februar, 2010.

Vil google gøre os dummere?

Spørgsmålet er ikke mit men stammer fra den nys publicerede PEW rapport om internettet i år 2020, den fjerde i rækken.

Som sædvanlig får et indbudt panel lov til at boltre sig i forudsigelsens svære kunst og udtale sig om spørgsmål som :

• Will Google make us stupid?
• Will the internet enhance or detract from reading, writing, and rendering of knowledge?
• Is the next wave of innovation in technology, gadgets, and applications pretty clear now, or will the most interesting developments between now and 2020 come “out of the blue”?
• Will the end-to-end principle of the internet still prevail in 10 years, or will there be more control of access to information?
• Will it be possible to be anonymous online or not by the end of the decade?

Rapporten kan downloades i pdf.

Nicolas Carr citeres for følgende. udsagn:

“What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence, away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence and more toward what might be called a utilitarian intelligence. The price of zipping among lots of bits of information is a loss of depth in our thinking”