[R]elying on the Internet for facts and figures is making us mindless sloths.... a study in Science ... demonstrates that the wealth of information readily available on the Internet disinclines users from remembering what they’ve found out.
Sue Halpern, "How Robots & Algorithms Are Taking Over," New York Review (April 2, 2015)
A commonplace book: an old-fashioned literary diary for recording interesting items from reading you've done. I use mine to record snippets from reading, conversation and life in general. (The early 2003 entries are from a period some years ago -- before the blog age -- when I tried an online commonplace book as a straight web page.)
Saturday, March 14, 2015
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