Google really has created something like a second brain for all of us. It holds all kinds information too small, too irrelevant, yet all too useful to simply forget. I don't think Google is making us stupid, nor do I think it is making us distracted. I do think that the internet is making us distracted. I am, that's for sure. I can hardly stay on one web page at a time, and I often have a bunch of tabs open with all sorts of stuff on them. I check the same web pages over and over to see if there is anything now on them. I cringe at reading a blog post that involves me scrolling more than once to read it all. I don't blame myself, I blame how quick and easy it is to do. I am after all weak under the pressure of high-speed internet. Then again Google loves that we can speed around the net and check out all kinds of things because it gets to know us better.
I wonder if Nietzsche had trouble typing all those consonants in a row from his last name when he first got that type writer. The article said his new tool changed the way he wrote from thoughts to narrative and puns. It makes me think that our minds might be moving back to thought now with all the internet writing and reading we do. Isn't this blog simply my thoughts?
The idea of the perfect search engine seems self-defeating. If the engine gives us exactly what we want then we cease to give Google the data from all of our wandering. No longer would surfing the web exist, it would become precise like a deadly missile. One of the major purposes of the web might be lost. Luckily stumbleupon exists to give us target randomness, almost like a bizarro Google.
In all I think this article had some pretty cool stuff to talk about.
What do you all think about Nietzsche having five consonants in a row in his last name? Also would a perfect search engine really be that great? Wouldn't it stop so much data flow that could be useful to companies and people?
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ReplyDeletehaha saw the tweet about not getting any comments. Unfortunately I've known that feeling too often this semester (haven't done my post yet for this week yet though).
5 consonants is far too many.
Interesting thought about a perfect search engine. I think it might still be useful because based on what our search terms are, they could still build up profiles for what we are interested in. I feel like this is almost as important as what we actually click on and read. Often I don't even need to click on anything because I can get my information from the short snippet Google provides on the results page anyway.