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By David Shenk
Media pupil ( and web fanatic ) David Shenk examines the troubling results of data proliferation on bodies, our brains, our relations, and our tradition, then bargains strikingly down-to-earth insights for dealing with the deluge. With a skillful mix of own essay, firsthand reportage, and sharp research, Shenk illustrates the crucial paradox of our time: as our international will get extra advanced, our responses to it develop into more and more simplistic.He attracts convincing hyperlinks among info smog and pressure distraction, indecision, cultural fragmentation, social vulgarity, and more.But there is desire for a saner, extra significant destiny, as Shenk bargains a wealth of novel prescriptions--both own and societal--for dispelling info smog.
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For [mankind],” writes popular zoologist Desmond Morris, “the main troubles will stem from the fact that his culturally operated advances will race ahead of any further genetic ones. ” Physically, we are what we are. So while we like to think of humans as adaptable creatures, the plain truth is that because of our complexity and longevity, we aren’t nearly as quick to physically adapt as are many other species. In the nineteenth century, the thick smoke from factories in England annihilated white lichens covering tree bark, rendering the previously well-camouflaged white Peppered Moth extremely vulnerable to bird predators.
And, though it never does quite work out that way, the hope springs eternal. The most elegant description I have seen of this blind faith is in a collaboration of French pop artist Moebius and writer Jean-Luc Coudray, from Coudray’s book, Stories of Mr. Mouche. Mr. Mouche climbed on his horse and rode it beautifully. “You must be proud of yourself,” said the professor. “No,” replied Mr. Mouche. “Still, your horse goes exactly where you want it to go,” said the professor. “That’s because I always want to go exactly where the horse wants to go,” replied Mr.
You are having a conversation about ESPN over a cabbage and cilantro salad. These events are recorded in your brain as a team of integrated thoughts, images, and observations. Thinking of one might well trigger a recall of the other. The ESPN memory will always bring some of the restaurant context along with it. The problem comes when the contexts begin to vanish in the sea of data. Perhaps, like me, you now read nearly everything off the same computer screen, in the same sitting position, in the same spot in the same room.