Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
The Shallows (Chapter 4 (Writing Mediums (Summerians - first to utilize…
The Shallows
Chapter 4
Writing Mediums
Summerians - first to utilize "specialized medium for writing" (Carr, 2011, pp. 58).
-
-
-
"Lack of word separation" within books (Carr, 2011, pp. 61).
The number of literate people grew - this led to to the need to separate the written word and oral word form one another (Carr, 2011, pp. 62).
-
-
The evolution of the book required other areas associated to evolve, including libraries and how people approached reading.
-
Chapter 5
-
Alan Turing - Managed to create a universal machine in his short life (this later became utilized as our universal medium) (Carr, 2011, pp. 82).
Turing knew there were limitations to his medium - never could have fathomed what it would eventually become.
Traditional mediums aren't going away - however, computers and the Internet are the "norm" mediums.
HOWEVER, these mediums "become progress's dead ends," which allows new technologies more opportunities to expand (Carr, 2011, pp. 89).
Chapter 8
-
History of the Web - "Data will only increase" (Carr, 2011, pp. 157).
Data will expand, reach will expand, usage will expand...
Chapter 9
Memory VS. Written Word
Socrates examined the idea that people became "less dependent" on their memories when they turned to writing down thoughts (Carr, 2011, pp. 177).
No more memorization - could research instead. This made it so people didn't have to think about what they were looking for (still true today).
-
-
"Offloading" memory/information frees up space in minds...this allows for more information/memories to formulate. But does this also diminish what we already knew?
-
Carr, N. G. (2011). The shallows: what the Internet is doing to our brains. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.