"One study says that email is more corrosive to your I.Q. than pot."
- New Yorker, Nov. 9 issue
The internet age has made the Inada condition applicable to the consumption of knowledge.
Why would I dig deep into a question when I can surf Wikipedia? It's much more enjoyable to read about something brand new for 15 minutes than to re-read Hegel for yet another 15 minutes. So we end up eating lots of candy-like trivial info bits and not so much of the meat and potatoes power ideas.
1 comment:
nice post, especially the last line! We need more meat and potatoes!
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