- Gerd Gigerenzer - "The Internet is a kind of collective memory, to which our minds will adapt until a new technology eventually replaces it. Then we will begin outsourcing other cognitive abilities, and hopefully, learn new ones.")
- Stephen Kosslyn - "I am a better thinker now than I was before I integrated the Internet into my mental and emotional processing."
- David Myers - "In the echo chambers of virtual worlds, as in real worlds, separation + conversation = polarization."
- Sherry Turkle - "To me, opening up a conversation about rethinking the Net, privacy, and civil society is not backward-looking nostalgia or Luddite in the least. It seems like part of a healthy process of democracy defining its sacred spaces."
- Simon Baron-Cohen - "This year's Edge question at least gives me pause to think whether I really want to be spending 1000 hours a year on email, at the expense of more valuable activities."
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Does the Internet change the way we think?
The online salon Edge.org recently posed this question to 109 scholars: "How Has The Internet Changed The Way You Think?" The answers are diverse, often conflicting and utterly fascinating. One warning: this site is a) laid out very poorly and b) a time suck -- you will skip from thinker to thinker and before you know hours have gone by. If you'd like a brief overview, check Sharon Begley's article in Newsweek. Here are selected thoughts from some of the psychologists who participated:
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