..oho-ho... Paul Graham (a creator of some scheme macro kludgy prototype that finally does what other people's micro-lisps and micro-schemes have done for _years_ if not decades) and his hot-air brigade declared the Internet Ultimate Evil.
The Internet is <b>an amplifier of thinking</b>. If in the past ages one would be limited by his access to books, had to physically travel to get access or wait for weeks, what is left to a human brain now is analyzing, discerning, hypothesizing, searching for evidence to confirm - because the Internet is an almost immediate reference with access to almost everything.
Note how different it is from the rammin into a passive victim faster and faster-montaged propaganda, to block any vestige of thought from this victim's head - what is television, of course.
With the Internet I have to get to the materials ACTIVELY. Although I switch off flash and javascript during normal work and browsing, of course.
A "computer specialist" that pushes us luddite idea of the Internet as the ultimate drug and evil! It's like a luddite who happens to be a technologist, only a bit more unnatural.
A man with access to the best instrument in aid of thinking incapable to see what he touches.
Only in Paul Graham's blog, only in Paul Graham's..
..oho-ho... Paul Graham (a creator of some scheme macro kludgy prototype that finally does what other people's micro-lisps and micro-schemes have done for _years_ if not decades) and his hot-air brigade declared the Internet Ultimate Evil.
The Internet is <b>an amplifier of thinking</b>. If in the past ages one would be limited by his access to books, had to physically travel to get access or wait for weeks, what is left to a human brain now is analyzing, discerning, hypothesizing, searching for evidence to confirm - because the Internet is an almost immediate reference with access to almost everything.
Note how different it is from the rammin into a passive victim faster and faster-montaged propaganda, to block any vestige of thought from this victim's head - what is television, of course.
With the Internet I have to get to the materials ACTIVELY. Although I switch off flash and javascript during normal work and browsing, of course.
A "computer specialist" that pushes us luddite idea of the Internet as the ultimate drug and evil! It's like a luddite who happens to be a technologist, only a bit more unnatural. A man with access to the best instrument in aid of thinking incapable to see what he touches.
Only in Paul Graham's blog, only in Paul Graham's..