techno-geek aristocracy

Leiam (porque vale a pena) e pensem bem nas vossas vidinhas:
"Stoooopid .... why the Google generation isn’t as smart as it thinks"


"... there is the great myth of multitasking. No human being, he says, can effectively write an e-mail and speak on the telephone. Both activities use language and the language channel in the brain can’t cope. Multitaskers fool themselves by rapidly switching attention and, as a result, their output deteriorates."
Digam isto aos portugueses, que trabalham ligados ao messenger.

"Meyer says there is evidence that people in chronically distracted jobs are, in early middle age, appearing with the same symptoms of burn-out as air traffic controllers. They might have stress-related diseases, even irreversible brain damage. But the damage is not caused by overwork, it’s caused by multiple distracted work."
I rest my case!...

"«They don’t,» says Bauerlein, «grow up.» They are «living off the thrill of peer attention. Meanwhile, their intellects refuse the cultural and civic inheritance that has made us what we are now»."
Onde é que eu já ouvi isto?!...

"These connections are severed as quickly as they are taken up – with the click of a mouse. Jackson and everyone else I spoke to was alarmed by the potential impact on real-world relationships. Teenagers are being groomed to think others can be picked up on a whim and dropped because of a mood or some slight offence. The fear is that the idea of sticking with another through thick and thin – the very essence of friendship and love – will come to seem absurd, uncool, meaningless. "
Esta, passo, porque não quero ficar deprimida.

"«I can’t read War and Peace any more,» confessed one of Carr’s friends. «I’ve lost the ability to do that. Even a blog post of more than three or four paragraphs is too much to absorb. I skim it.» "
E ainda me gozam por querer perceber Nietzsche palavra a palavra. É certo que ainda não consegui passar da introdução, bloqueei naquela frase e nem com a ajuda do público consegui continuar, mas hei-de conseguir!
Faltava-me o Google!... Levem o Mac!!!

"These things do make our lives easier, but only by destroying the very selves that should be protesting at every distraction, demanding peace, quiet and contemplation."
Agora, pensem!...