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Matthew Hodder
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WHILE TECHNOLOGY IMPROVES
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SO DOES OUR ABILITY TO CONNECT
WITH THE WORLD
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FRIENDS FAR AND WIDE
FEEL CLOSE
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BUT THIS CONNECTIVITY COMES AT A COST
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“In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates bemoaned the development of writing. He feared that, as people came to rely on the written word
as a substitute for the knowledge they used to carry inside their heads, they would, in the words of one of the dialogue’s
characters, “cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful.” And because they would be able to “receive a quantity of
information without proper instruction,” they would “be thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite
ignorant.” They would be “filled with the conceit of wisdom instead of real wisdom.”” – NICHOLAS CARR
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ANSWERS ARE NO LONGER SOUGHT
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BUT ARE QUICKLY GOOGLED WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING
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IT QUICKLY BECOMES IMPOSSIBLE TO KEEP UP WITH ALL OF YOUR
“FRIENDS”
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ESPECIALLY WITH FACEBOOK “TAILORING YOUR NEWSFEED BASED ON WHO YOU ROUTINELY INTERACT
WITH” – ALAN MARTIN
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AND THE CONVERSATIONS YOU DO HAVE ARE TIDBITS
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THAT ARE MOSTLY CURT AND ACRONYMICALLY-CENTERED
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WE LIMIT OURSELVES TO JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG OF UNDERSTANDING
AND RELATION
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THIS SUPER-CONNECTIVITY DISTRACTS US: “EACH OF US IS IN OUR OWN
BUBBLE.” – SHERRY TURKLE
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OUR BUBBLES SOMETIMES CONSUME
US SO ENTIRELY
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THAT SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTS MUST MAKE EFFORTS TO POP THEM
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WE MUST REMEMBER TO TAKE EVERYTHING IN MODERATION
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AND SOMETIMES TO CONNECT WE MUST ALSO DISCONNECT
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RESOURCES
“Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr. The Atlantic. 2008.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/
“The web‟s „echo chamber‟ leaves us none the wiser” by Alan Martin. Wired.co.uk. 2013.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/1/online-stubbornness
“The Flight From Conversation” by Sherry Turkle. New York Times Sunday Review – Opinion Pages. 2012.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/the-flight-from-conversation.html?pagewanted=all
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