Findings on the Internets: Various Items of Interest
This is a non-ADD related post.
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- How did Pantsman conquer the world?: “Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s promotion from loser to enemy of civilisation suggests the politics of fear is a bigger threat than bitter individuals.” See: http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7886/
- The Decision Tree: a blog about predictive medicine and the future of healthcare See: http://thedecisiontree.com/blog/
- How Is The Internet Changing The Way You Think? See: http://www.edge.org/
Selected Quotes:- “As a technology, a book focuses our attention, isolates us from the myriad distractions that fill our everyday lives. A networked computer does precisely the opposite. It’s designed to scatter our attention.” – NICHOLAS CARR
- “The Internet is stealing our attention. It competes for it with everything else we do. A lot of what it offers is high quality competition. But unfortunately a lot of what it offers is merely good at capturing our attention, and provides us with little of long term import — sugar filled carbonated sodas for our mind.” – RODNEY BROOKS
- “The Internet is virtualizing the universe, which changes the way I act and think. “Virtualization” (a basic historical transition, like “industrialization”) means that I spend more & more of my time acting-within and thinking about the mirror-reflection of some external system or institution in the (smooth, pond-like) surface of the Internet.” – DAVID GELERNTER
- Genes to Cognition Online “Genes to Cognition (G2C) Online is about modern neuroscience. It focuses on cognitive disorders, cognitive processes, and research approaches.” See: http://www.g2conline.org/
- The Story of Stuff: “From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.” See: http://storyofstuff.com/
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