Jan 28
Some hard hitting issues in today’s episode about the Internet, social responsibly, and helmets. Enjoy!
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I actually think the modern state of Internet has a negative effect in our attention spam. Not that it makes us lazy, stupid or anything like that; not that I feel nostalgic about good old times; but it just makes things so easy to access that more than a few minutes are considered a waste of effort.
When was the last time you went to a library and search several books to do some research? When was the last time you read more than 10 pages on a subject?
Because of the abundance and immediacy of information we get from sites like google, we expect everything we look for to be among the first two pages, otherwise it just doesn’t exist or is not relevant. I have several students that confused “couldn’t find something on the first pages of a couple search tries”, or “wasn’t on the first page of the articles I found” with “there is nothing written about it”.
I totally agree.
It is only like 10 years ago that you were not supposed to check your email everyday, that you did not have to be available by cellphone all day long,…
OK you can turn your phone off and check your email every week, but that is seriously frowned upon and could even get you into trouble.
It is like not checking your “original” mailbox every day.
I worked in IT and it burned me out. I had to stay home for a couple of months and I am now going a completely different direction.
There is too much information and radiation from all these technologies. It is overburdening our brain.
I noticed this when I went on a camping trip with the family. It totally relaxed me. Sure part of it was the fresh air and all the green stuff around me but it was also the fact that I could not check my mail, I could not surf to all my favorite sites, I could not play video games for several hours, etc…
I think people should not forget to step back once in a while. And try to get back to basics.
Too long. Did not read.
Just kidding, but I totally agree with you. It is completely the fact that basically anything is available to be observed that we don’t pay attention to one single thing long enough.
my response to the title is, “No way, I was lazy before I descovered the internet”
That’s a picture of Brian when he was a kid, right? (Kidding, kidding.) =P
Too lazy to write a reply.
@redguard that picture was taken last week.
that was a good show.
Hey great episode i brought up the topic about the farmer haveing a not high iQ but being able to grow food in my class and the disscusion with the other kids and my teacher whent so long it got us out of math class Thx for all the entertanment
O is right – if you look on profile of your highschool love, ex, or whatever waaaay too long, crazy ideas pops to your head and its gonna be worst and worst in time. just stop thinking about that, jerk it out or do something alse and never touch that crap again. I done this mistake and I had a depression for week because I was thinking about past too long
the criticism of harm coming from “processed foods” is a common one, but also a highly fallacious one, focusing on the idea that nature is automatically better for you. the problem is that you would be hard pressed to find any food that we haven’t been “messing with” in one way or another throughout our existence.
plus if a type of food (“processed” in this case) is everywhere and some people are becoming obese it’s easy to see the correlation that obese people have been eating processed food, but it is another matter entirely to say that the processed food caused the obesity, rather than a correlation in serving size or personal eating habits.
I feel like sometimes going for a run is the lazy thing to do. I have so much other stuff to do its hard to give 30 minutes to 60 minutes to stop and run. Thats time I could be working or spending with my family. Or reading and learning something.
There is also a weird assumption that the rural farmer has not been affected by technology. Most modern farmers are totally dependent on technology for seeds and soil enrichment. Todays modern mono culture farmer would be just as hosed as us.
I think it makes me more efficient to be lazy.
No… I think I’ve always been lazy… teh interwebz just rewards that with fat lootz!