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?
Parent Reference
How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?
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