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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog

Utopia is creepy

works of science fiction, particularly good ones, are almost always dystopian. it's easy to understand why: there's a lot of drama in hell, but heaven is, by definition, conflict-free. happiness is nice to experience, but seen from the outside it's pretty dull. but there's another reason why portrayals of utopia don't work. we've all experienced the "unc... (105 天前)

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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog

Minds askew

iain mcgilchrist, the psychiatrist and former english professor whose 2009 book on the human brain, the master and his emissary, is endlessly fascinating, discusses his ideas on the meaning of the brain's hemispherical divide in this wonderful animation: that helps explain, among many other things, why we're so drawn to the metaphor that portrays the bra... (109 天前)

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Retransmission of a language-based practice

penn prof kenneth goldsmith has seen the future of culture, and it's a content farm: for the past several years, i've taught a class at the university of pennsylvania called "uncreative writing." in it, students are penalized for showing any shred of originality and creativity. instead they are rewarded for plagiarism, identity theft, repurposing papers,... (118 天前)

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Bondi Blue

i kid you not, in the late 1990s i actually paid good cash money for a macintosh computer that looked like this: it was as ugly as steve ballmer's ass. it weighed a million pounds. it was referred to as "the molar." that was not a term of endearment. apple computer was dead. it was not "nearly dead," as you'll hear some say today. it was doornail dead. i... (120 天前)

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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog

Sentence of the day

it's by evgeny morozov, and it appears in his breaking-a-butterfly-on-a-wheel review of jeff jarvis's public parts: "this is a book that should have stayed a tweet."...... (121 天前)

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Overselling educational software

tomorrow's new york times carries the second installment in the paper's series "grading the digital school." like the first installment, this one finds little solid evidence that popular, expensive computer-aided instruction programs actually benefit students. the focus of the new article, written by trip gabriel and matt richtel, is cognitive tutor, a w... (126 天前)

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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog

Conspicuous production: a hypothesis

when conspicuous consumption shifts from the realm of material goods to the realm of information it takes the form of conspicuous production. discuss....... (126 天前)

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