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Michael P. Lynch

(1966) Philosopher

8 quotes in 16 categories

Michael P. Lynch is a philosopher.

Quick Facts About Michael P. Lynch

Born: March 6, 1966
Profession: Philosopher

About Michael P. Lynch

[Wikidata] professor of philosophy... | [Wikipedia] Michael Patrick Lynch is an American philosopher who is Provost Professor of the Humanities and Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut. From 2014 to 2023 he was also the director of the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute. As director of t

Quotes by Michael P. Lynch

“As the literary critic and writer Leon Wieseltier remarks, “every technology is used before it is completely understood.”

Michael P. Lynch

Technology

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“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,…

Michael P. Lynch

Data

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“And it is why so many of us who use Facebook are still troubled by its siren song: it is a simulacrum…

Michael P. Lynch

Learning

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“We digital humans do have access to more information than ever before—whether or not we have neuromedia. But it is also true…

Michael P. Lynch

Internet

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“One way of describing the direction in which our own culture is moving is that many of us are starting to adapt…

Michael P. Lynch

Internet

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“My hypothesis is that information technology, while expanding our ability to know in one way, is actually impeding our ability to know…

Michael P. Lynch

Information technology

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“But without understanding, something deeper is missing. And our digital form of life, while giving us more facts, is not particularly good…

Michael P. Lynch

Learning

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“Today, the fastest and easiest way of knowing is Google-knowing, which means not just “knowledge by search engine” but the way we…

Michael P. Lynch

Good thing

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