Questions raised by Carr's "The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains"
What we’re experiencing is, in a metaphorical sense, a reversal of the early trajectory of civilization: We are evolving from cultivators of personal knowledge into hunters and gatherers in the electronic data forest. In the process, we seem fated to sacrifice much of what makes our minds so interesting.
This Nick Carr article certainly resonates. Yet I find many multitaskers get highly defensive when they're told it's not the right way to do things.
The key thing for me is that we take in all the rubbish from the net because we think we're missing something. So we drink in all the noise for the one or two gems that we might not find otherwise.
So, putting a positive spin on this, how can computers, machine learning and agents -- and above all, our process for consuming their output -- become trusted enough that we can rely on them with a 99.9% certainty that we won't miss anything we need to see? Effective people delegate to trusted agents, whether other people or machines.
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