Brad Dunn
https://medium.com/@jesterhoax
we are all more susceptible to conspiracy theories and extremist ideologies in times of personal or collective crisis.
“Nothing about our world is inconsistent with the existence of a multiverse.”
― Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
― Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
“never has there been a medium that, like the Net, has been programmed to so widely scatter our attention and to do it so insistently.”
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
“What both enthusiast and skeptic miss is what McLuhan saw: that in the long run a medium’s content matters less than the medium itself in influencing how we think and act.”
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
“the amount of information a communication medium supplies is less important than the way the medium presents the information and the way, in turn, our minds take it in.”
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
“As a group of Northwestern University professors wrote in a 2005 article in the Annual Review of Sociology, the recent changes in our reading habits suggest that the “era of mass [book] reading” was a brief “anomaly” in our intellectual history: “We are now seeing such reading return to its former social base: a self-perpetuating minority that we shall call the reading class.” The question that remains to be answered, they went on, is whether that reading class will have the “power and prestige associated with an increasingly rare form of cultural capital” or will be viewed as the eccentric practitioners of “an increasingly arcane hobby.”20”
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
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