memes and things

teachingliteracy:

“We are becoming symbiotic with our computer tools, growing into interconnected systems that remember less by knowing information than by knowing where the information can be found.”

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This sentence comes from the findings of a new study conducted by psychology professors at Columbia University, the University Of Wisconsin-Madison, and Harvard University. 

Essentially, the study asserts that internet search is destroying our “internal memory.”

Google Search And Memory

(via world-shaker)

Not to be all herp a derp but when you think about it, this phenomenon is just a continuation of human’s evolution in thought/memory that has been progressing since we moved from oral to written traditions. The article’s use of the word “destroy” implies that the losses we’re incurring by the current transformation are more significant than the gains, and I’m not so sure that’s necessarily the case.

Droppin’ that Walter Ong knowledge on ya’ll~