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Is technology to blame for everything?

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This is a must read article. I loved it.

Don’t Touch That Dial!
A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook.
by Vaughan Bell at Slashdot

It’s amazing how many postings and articles I’ve read over the years that posit that this technology or that technology is making us stupid, wrecking our attention span, or runing our children.

Thanks to Teleread for pointing to this from here:

Do we not read as much anymore because the Internet has sapped our attention spans?

Internet may not be affecting attention spans after all

Some libraries have participated in similar venedetta against romance fiction, comic books, graphic novels, videogames, the Hardy Boys. Nancy Drew series, etc. All have been proven wrongheaded over time.

Too bad fear is often the opposite of the facts.

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on February 17, 2010 (boomark / email).