I’d prefer to be a “cake person”.
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As we are drained of our “inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance,” Foreman concluded, we risk turning into “‘pancake people’—spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button.” 1
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I like this concept of deep reading.
Compare/contrast with close reading and distant reading. What other types of reading might we imagine?
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Deep reading, as Maryanne Wolf argues, is indistinguishable from deep thinking. 1
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My own intellectual vibrations are ensconced into the annotations I make as I read.
I’m curious how this habit will change my thinking over time.
Can we create a link between César A. Hidalgo’s idea about crystalized thoughts and intellectual vibrations? (There’s the germ of something here? Maybe it’s just the chemistry and crystal thing?)
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The kind of deep reading that a sequence of printed pages promotes is valuable not just for the knowledge we acquire from the author’s words but for the intellectual vibrations those words set off within our own minds. 1
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Technology fears definitely repeat themselves. This pattern also repeated with social media, television, radio, etc.
The key may be to worry about the thing that gets lost or changes, and come up with a way to exercise and utilize it despite the newest technology?
How might we prevent ourselves from repeating this cyclic history with the next major change?
| Technology | Loss | “Luddite” |
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| writing | memory, wisdom | Socrates |
| books | intellectual laziness, weakened minds | Hieronimo Squarciafico |
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The arrival of Gutenberg’s printing press, in the 15th century, set off another round of teeth gnashing. The Italian humanist Hieronimo Squarciafico worried that the easy availability of books would lead to intellectual laziness, making men “less studious” and weakening their minds. Others argued that cheaply printed books and broadsheets would undermine religious authority, demean the work of scholars and scribes, and spread sedition and debauchery. 1
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I feel like Western culture has lost so much of our memory traditions that this trite story, which I’ve seen often repeated, doesn’t have the weight it should.
Why can’t we simultaneously have the old system AND the new? Lynne Kelly and Margo Neale touch on this in their coinage of the third archive in Songlines - The Power and Promise.
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In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates bemoaned the development of writing. He feared that, as people came to rely on the written word as a substitute for the knowledge they used to carry inside their heads, they would, in the words of one of the dialogue’s characters, “cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful.” And because they would be able to “receive a quantity of information without proper instruction,” they would “be thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite ignorant.” They would be “filled with the conceit of wisdom instead of real wisdom.” Socrates wasn’t wrong—the new technology did often have the effects he feared—but he was shortsighted. He couldn’t foresee the many ways that writing and reading would serve to spread information, spur fresh ideas, and expand human knowledge (if not wisdom). 1
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Here Nicholas Carr touches on the overly rose colored glasses technologists had in the early aughts. This began turning sometime around 2012 when a small handful of corporate giants began consuming everything in sight.
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Maybe I’m just a worrywart. Just as there’s a tendency to glorify technological progress, there’s a countertendency to expect the worst of every new tool or machine. 1
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