Information, services, contacts... The overflowing amount of such things is undeniable and unescapable.
Every day the internet user is offered new ways of surfing on the web, new websites or blogs are created every minute, videos on Youtube and music on Myspace are updated every second. Now, if you possess an iPhone, not only are you instantly and daily connected to the internet, but you can also consult your Facebook page on the subway, search for the name of a capital on Wikipedia, find your way through an unkown city...
Nowadays it seems to me that the sense of ignorance has been replaced by a sense of over-knowing. It's not that we are more intelligent, but we have every information within reach. I personnally refuse to be tempted by this tool, because I feel like I have to preserve my right of "not knowing".
Nowadays, because the Web offers more and more ways of informing its users about anything, our habits are changed. When we open a newspaper, our mind selects articles or words the same way that it does on the internet. Many studies have been conducted in order to explain how our use of the internet has mutated our attention span. Please click here to read one of them.
The web, because of its impermanency, has contributed to the evolution of our way of living: when we used to take time to read or to observe, we now believe that we have everything in our hands, that anything is available and possesable.
Every day the internet user is offered new ways of surfing on the web, new websites or blogs are created every minute, videos on Youtube and music on Myspace are updated every second. Now, if you possess an iPhone, not only are you instantly and daily connected to the internet, but you can also consult your Facebook page on the subway, search for the name of a capital on Wikipedia, find your way through an unkown city...
Nowadays it seems to me that the sense of ignorance has been replaced by a sense of over-knowing. It's not that we are more intelligent, but we have every information within reach. I personnally refuse to be tempted by this tool, because I feel like I have to preserve my right of "not knowing".
Nowadays, because the Web offers more and more ways of informing its users about anything, our habits are changed. When we open a newspaper, our mind selects articles or words the same way that it does on the internet. Many studies have been conducted in order to explain how our use of the internet has mutated our attention span. Please click here to read one of them.
The web, because of its impermanency, has contributed to the evolution of our way of living: when we used to take time to read or to observe, we now believe that we have everything in our hands, that anything is available and possesable.
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