Nicholas Carr Interview With Wired Mag

That is an awesome quote. I absolutely loved Stanley Kubrick’s films, especially 2001.

Matter of fact, I might watch that again tonight thanks to you.

OK, some of the ones I own and recommend:

2001: A Space Odyssey - Awesome film. Too hard to describe, so just watch. It’s ‘deep’ and requires a lot of thinking between the lines to interpret what Kubrick is trying to show.

A Clockwork Orange - Pretty wacky film that deals with psychology.

Eyes Wide Shut - A film that looks at secret societies. It would be better if it didn’t have Tom Cruise in it… but this was before he became a Scientology wacko.

He also did The Shining and Full Metal Jacket. Both are pretty good.

Sounds like the intro to Terminator 4 haha, very cool quote though which almost makes too much sense. Freaky!

I don’t know why but that made me think of an article I was reading about the different ways people learn and how teachers need to rethink their teaching process.
People just learn what they need,when they need and then forget it b/c they know they can find the information just as easy on the internet or a different source.

Sorry Jeffro, please delete the previous comment. For some reason editing failed.

We’ve become an increasinly lazy society with the advent of writing, and more recently the information age.

Arguably, previously people had to memorize things more, since they had no paper (or computers) to do it for them. Although at the same time they had less things to memorize since society was somehow less complex.

Remember, up until the industrial revolution 80% or so off the world’s population lived off the farm environment. Education and writing was not as necessary and in many cases knowledge was passed on through word of mouth.

The printing press, and previously papyrus had a massive impact on society as we know it.

So while life became more complex for us contemporary folks, we now have more methods to aid us in memorizing than we did previously.

But one day we’ll be hooked straight to Google through our brains, with full access to the world’s information.

Will this happen? I hope not, although we are shaping to become more ‘drone’ like. It’s sad to see images of Chinese workers in the production line that are there all day, like machines.

On a last note, this reminds me of the Matrix. Where machines will one day control the planet. It’s really not that far fetched when you think about it…