Posts tagged “internet”
Early days
What are the major consequences of internet on society and culture? Perhaps it’s too early to tell. Clay Shirky, on last week’s episode of Spark: If you had gone to Germany in the mid-1470s and said, let’s see what this printing press is doing, right, you would miss novels, you would miss newspapers, you would [...]
Correlation ≠ Causation
Lee Rainnie, director of the Pew Internet and American Life project, from this week’s On the Media, speaking about social isolation and internet use: For centuries, when new technologies come on the scene there’s almost an instinctive human reaction, particularly among those who are challenged by the new technology, to blame the technology for any [...]