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Knewton Reads: “The Information” and the impact of technology on thought

Posted on April 23, 2012 by

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James Gleick’s “The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood” was the pick for this month’s Knewton book club. The book covers the history of information — from the invention of scripts and alphabets to the Morse code and the arrival of the Information Age. We’ll be posting reviews throughout the month; read others here. In “The Information,” Gleick flies through centuries of early history, describing monumental changes in the representation of thought from oral… Read more

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The internet as an extension of human thought

Posted on March 22, 2012 by

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This post was inspired by Edge.org‘s collection of responses to the question, “How has the Internet changed the way you think?” Check out our other posts on the subject here. If someone asked me when the Gettysburg address was delivered, I could say with dubious certainty that it was around the 1860s. Given just a few minutes, I wouldn’t be able to get any more specific than that. But if I sat for a while… Read more

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