Hotspring 44
09-03-2011, 08:36 PM
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I am going to post it twice, because the two small phrases that are in red in this first post are the ones that I am going to attempt to use the hyperlink function from the toolbar this website provides, located up above where we write; in an attempt to reproduce the HTML malfunction in the next Post by using that hyperlink function.
I will first preview this post. then if it looks like it is supposed to, excluding the (actual) hyperlinks, I will then click the "Submit New Post" button assuming that there will be no HTML code malfunction with this first posting of the test.
...There are a lot of theories about the cognitive differences between reading a book, watching TV, texting, surfing the net, "multitasking" (which adolescents love to claim they're masters at, but which studies show is a poor way to absorb information and develop cognitive skills). Nobody yet has a definitive answer as to what is really going on.
Aha yes, “multitasking”, just more ways for somebody to make an excuse not to pay attention to something else that requires more specific focus.
I think that it's possible that the people that multitask, particularly youngsters in the computer age nowadays with all video games and such, when they claim to be “bored” when they are not multitasking even though they are quite loaded down with one particular thing or another to do; Instead, I think that they actually become very frustrated at times because of the lack of experience with the discipline known stay with one thing for very long time. It's the attention span or lack thereof, which causes the frustration, IMO.
BTW, while on the topic of “multitasking”, check out the thread I started called: [I]Brain’s Network of Bottlenecks May Limit Multitasking in the WackoReader section.
Since the social and psychological has often been a response to the technological, shaped by changes in the ways we communicate, work, create meaning in general, we know things are changing and there are many schools of thought about, whether that's good, bad, or a mix. (I say mix.).
:recycle:
The criticisms are moot, it's happening, it's not going to go away, unless and until there is a collapse of industrial, post-industrial civilization. Which many welcome as a needed curative for some of the issues I just adumbrated, and for other reasons. A fascination with Thanatos, for instance.
We don't know, until we know. If then.
That so reminds me of something Donald Rumsfeld said:
“[T]here are [I]known knowns; there are things we know we know.
We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.” I am pretty sure I know what you meant, but I can't help myself sometimes with my sometimes oddball sense of humor, what you said there gave Me a pretty good chuckle. I thank you for that, I appreciate it. I have not been laughing enough lately and that was a good one for me. I enjoyed it even though I know that all of what you mentioned is quite serious.
In light of it all, we still need to keep our sense of humor.:waccosun:
I am going to post it twice, because the two small phrases that are in red in this first post are the ones that I am going to attempt to use the hyperlink function from the toolbar this website provides, located up above where we write; in an attempt to reproduce the HTML malfunction in the next Post by using that hyperlink function.
I will first preview this post. then if it looks like it is supposed to, excluding the (actual) hyperlinks, I will then click the "Submit New Post" button assuming that there will be no HTML code malfunction with this first posting of the test.
...There are a lot of theories about the cognitive differences between reading a book, watching TV, texting, surfing the net, "multitasking" (which adolescents love to claim they're masters at, but which studies show is a poor way to absorb information and develop cognitive skills). Nobody yet has a definitive answer as to what is really going on.
Aha yes, “multitasking”, just more ways for somebody to make an excuse not to pay attention to something else that requires more specific focus.
I think that it's possible that the people that multitask, particularly youngsters in the computer age nowadays with all video games and such, when they claim to be “bored” when they are not multitasking even though they are quite loaded down with one particular thing or another to do; Instead, I think that they actually become very frustrated at times because of the lack of experience with the discipline known stay with one thing for very long time. It's the attention span or lack thereof, which causes the frustration, IMO.
BTW, while on the topic of “multitasking”, check out the thread I started called: [I]Brain’s Network of Bottlenecks May Limit Multitasking in the WackoReader section.
Since the social and psychological has often been a response to the technological, shaped by changes in the ways we communicate, work, create meaning in general, we know things are changing and there are many schools of thought about, whether that's good, bad, or a mix. (I say mix.).
:recycle:
The criticisms are moot, it's happening, it's not going to go away, unless and until there is a collapse of industrial, post-industrial civilization. Which many welcome as a needed curative for some of the issues I just adumbrated, and for other reasons. A fascination with Thanatos, for instance.
We don't know, until we know. If then.
That so reminds me of something Donald Rumsfeld said:
“[T]here are [I]known knowns; there are things we know we know.
We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.” I am pretty sure I know what you meant, but I can't help myself sometimes with my sometimes oddball sense of humor, what you said there gave Me a pretty good chuckle. I thank you for that, I appreciate it. I have not been laughing enough lately and that was a good one for me. I enjoyed it even though I know that all of what you mentioned is quite serious.
In light of it all, we still need to keep our sense of humor.:waccosun: