CMST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Friedrich Nietzsche, Reddit, Typewriter
16 Jun 2015
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Administrative: prof office, have a picture on avenue, oct 1-entrepreneurship networking (registration on oscarplus, class help on twitter. In 2008 28% of adults in america were using social media: in 2013 72% of adults. 18% of men use twitter (men lead) The technology paradox: technology becomes an extension of humanity, adapting to technology (nietzsche"s writing style change due to the typewriter example) Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts : based on carr reading, as marshall mcluhan said, the medium is the message. Nicholas car: wrote the shallows as he found the internet influenced the way we think, loss of focus to read/attention span, easily distracted. Thursday, september 12, 2013: loss of the ability to keep attention to complete a particular task for a prolonged period of time. Larger than average hypocatmus in london taxi drivers due to the use of memory recall.
