Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Dyson, Esther (January, 2010), Information Metabolism, Edge Foundation, Inc., Retrieved on 2010-10-01Source Material [edge.org]
Folksonomies: culture internet information entropy society information Memes
23 JAN 2011
The Internet is Empty Calories
But sometimes I think much of what we get on the Internet is empty calories. It’s sugar — short videos, pokes from friends, blog posts, Twitter posts (even blogs seem longwinded now), pop-ups and visualizations…Sugar is so much easier to digest, so enticing…and ultimately, it leaves us hungrier than before.
Worse than that, over a long period, many of us are genetically disposed to lose our capability to digest sugar if we consume too much of it. It makes us sick long-term, as well as...Is the information we consume on the Internet like refined sugar, leaving us hungrier than before?
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Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Brockman, John, ed. (January, 2010), How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?, Edge Foundation, Inc., Retrieved on 2010-10-01Source Material [edge.org]
Folksonomies: new media