The Web Is Making People Stupid (TWIMPS)
Jon Awbrey <[email protected]>
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o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o TWIMPS. Note 1 o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o Peircers, The best I can remember, I've been thinking about issues of electronic computation since sometime in the early 60s when my best friend and I did our 8th grade science project building an analogue device for multiplying 2 numbers out of half-shaved carpenter pencils, coiled up bits of copper wire, and a 9-volt battery. Skipping past the blue smoke years, I have been spending a fair portion of the intervening decades exploring the potential of information technology to assist us in our efforts at inquiry, from the humdrum everyday variety to the fully scientific sort. These days, I spend my time re-working my old work into forms I hope will eventually be more digestible, that, and, when the tedium gets too unbearable, chatting with folks scattered about the inter-webs about anything else under the sun. The last decade has been pretty disappointing when it comes to that whole "info-tech potential for ramping up the power of inquiry" score, and so I've spent a fair amount of time puzzling over that phenomenon and chatting with my various cohorts about it. It is of course a far less pleasant subject to contemplate than the brighter side of things, so it takes a hardy class of intrepid souls to do so much as face the undeniably unpleasant facts. For what it's worth, then, here's a hint of one forum where we have, from time to time, taken up the problems presented by our latter day Web of Maya, if any of you find yourselves in need of a support group, or just a place to vent. * http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showforum=62 * http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=27783 Regards, Jon o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/JonnyCache inquiry list: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ mwb: http://www.mywikibiz.com/Directory:Jon_Awbrey knol profile: http://knol.google.com/k/Jon-Awbrey# oeiswiki: http://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey polmic: www.policymic.com/profiles/1110/Jon-Awbrey