I’ve begun work on my next book, tentatively titled The Shallows: Mind, Memory and Media in an Age of Instant Information. This blog will remain semidormant for a while.
I’ve begun work on my next book, tentatively titled The Shallows: Mind, Memory and Media in an Age of Instant Information. This blog will remain semidormant for a while.
Hi Nick,
I just wanted to wish you all the best with your new book. On this topic, you may be interested in my PhD thesis which investigated the role of memory in personal information management. You can find a copy on my website.
I have been meaning for some time to write an article linking your Atlantic article with my work, but it remains a work in progress.
Best wishes,
David
Yes, good luck, indeed. I look forward to reading the book. Big topic, that.
Tom
Keep the new book short. In fact, the title alone is almost enough. In any event, no arguments longer than a sentence or two, please — i mean, who has time. Publish it as an e-book and make all the interesting nouns hyperlinks. If you like, send me a few “keywords” that give the gist of the book and I’ll cast the Google bones and write a critical review for you. I found a nice chicken recipe yesterday.
-t
Delighted to see a potential exploration of the continued demise of what we used to call “mind.” With apologies (not really) to Andy Warhol:
“In the future, every idea will be expressed in 140 characters, every explanation contained in a video 12 seconds or less.” [Character count =
Best of luck to our Fearless Leader as he throws another literary thunder blot at the tech status quo! Astronomer Clifford Stoll of Silicon Snake Oil fame has gone to far as to suggest that computers and the Internet simply don’t belong in the classroom at all:
And in This Corner … The ‘High-Tech Heretic’!.
I hope Nick’s new work can expand on that as well.