“And it is why so many of us who use Facebook are still troubled by its siren song: it is a simulacrum of intimacy, a simulacrum of mutual understanding, not the real thing. The pattern of what people like or… — Michael P. Lynch Copy Share Image
“As the literary critic and writer Leon Wieseltier remarks, “every technology is used before it is completely understood.” — Michael P. Lynch Copy Share Image
“Information is the atmosphere—what the philosopher Luciano Floridi calls the infosphere—of our lives.7 But the fact that we live in the infosphere, that it… — Michael P. Lynch Copy Share Image
“And it is why so many of us who use Facebook are still troubled by its siren song: it is a simulacrum of intimacy,… — Michael P. Lynch Copy Share Image
“We digital humans do have access to more information than ever before—whether or not we have neuromedia. But it is also true that in… — Michael P. Lynch Copy Share Image
“One way of describing the direction in which our own culture is moving is that many of us are starting to adapt what we… — Michael P. Lynch Copy Share Image
“My hypothesis is that information technology, while expanding our ability to know in one way, is actually impeding our ability to know in other,… — Michael P. Lynch Copy Share Image
“But without understanding, something deeper is missing. And our digital form of life, while giving us more facts, is not particularly good at giving… — Michael P. Lynch Copy Share Image
“Today, the fastest and easiest way of knowing is Google-knowing, which means not just “knowledge by search engine” but the way we are increasingly… — Michael P. Lynch Copy Share Image
