So this week is all about distributive cognition. Most of the articles we read for this week are fairly well written. However, the one that I was reading was so "overwritten" that being "newbie" to distributive cognition, I found it almost unreadable. I hope the author of that article is not considered notable in the field because I have no desire to read any more of his work. But enough of that, I'll save it for class.
I've glanced through the blogs tonight too and found John's comments about Google making us stupid to be interesting. This last week I have been looking at Google as a business and its philosophy.
"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" www.google.com
Of particular interest was an interview I found of Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google. In this interview Schmidt discusses how that people are doing things much faster than before and for us who have not grown up with the in that fast pace feel it more as a bad thing, while today's generation that is growing up has only seen the "fast pace" and to them it is the norm and they are adaptable. http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Googles_view_on_the_future_of_business_An_interview_with_CEO_Eric_Schmidt_2229
My interpretation of this also means less patience with rote memorization when things can be found on the web much faster. Instead they will be come experts in searching and finding what they want. They will create their own 'local search memory" by tagging locations they want to remember then being able to search their own custom tags. And then, if they cant find something in their own personal external brain, they will turn to the larger search sites such as google.
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