techandsoc.com » 2009 » December » 10 http://techandsoc.com An international CONFERENCE, a scholarly JOURNAL, a BOOK series, and an online KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITY Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:52:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Age of The Informavore: A Talk With Frank Schirrmacher http://techandsoc.com/2009/12/10/the-age-of-the-informavore-a-talk-with-frank-schirrmacher/ http://techandsoc.com/2009/12/10/the-age-of-the-informavore-a-talk-with-frank-schirrmacher/#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:28:20 +0000 audreyl http://techandsoc.com/?p=1500 From Edge

We are apparently now in a situation where modern technology is changing the way people behave, people talk, peoplschirrmacher2011e react, people think, and people remember. And you encounter this not only in a theoretical way, but when you meet people, when suddenly people start forgetting things, when suddenly people depend on their gadgets, and other stuff, to remember certain things. This is the beginning, its just an experience. But if you think about it and you think about your own behavior, you suddenly realize that something fundamental is going on. There is one comment on Edge which I love, which is in Daniel Dennett’s response to the 2007 annual question, in which he said that we have a population explosion of ideas, but not enough brains to cover them.

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