“The Internet hasn’t changed the way we think,”-neuroscientist Joshua Greene-Harvard.
This is an interesting conflict with the common rush of enthusiasm, rewriters and popularists of what I believe are profiteers in education industry.
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The impact of the Internet on cognition: Experts speak out
The ways the Internet supposedly affects thought are as apocalyptic as they are speculative, since all the above are supported by anecdote, not empirical data. So it is refreshing to hear how 109 philosophers, neurobiologists, and other scholars answered, “How is the Internet changing the way you think?” That is the “annual question” at the online salon edge.org, where every year science impresario, author, and literary agent John Brockman poses a puzzler for his flock of scientists and other thinkers…
“The Internet hasn’t changed the way we think,” argues neuroscientist Joshua Greene of Harvard. It “has provided us with unprecedented access to information, but it hasn’t changed what [our brains] do with it.” Read more at cogsciblog.wordpress.com
