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The effects of consuming electronic media are also likely to be far more limited than the panic implies. Media critics write as if the brain takes on the qualities of whatever it consumes, the informational equivalent of “you are what you eat.” As with primitive peoples who believe that eating fierce animals will make them fierce, they assume that watching quick cuts in rock videos turns your mental life into quick cuts or that reading bullet points and Twitter postings turns your thoughts into bullet points and Twitter postings.

Yes, the constant arrival of information packets can be distracting or addictive, especially to people with attention deficit disorder. But distraction is not a new phenomenon. The solution is not to bemoan technology but to develop strategies of self-control, as we do with every other temptation in life. Turn off e-mail or Twitter when you work, put away your Blackberry at dinner time, ask your spouse to call you to bed at a designated hour.

And to encourage intellectual depth, don’t rail at PowerPoint or Google. It’s not as if habits of deep reflection, thorough research and rigorous reasoning ever came naturally to people. They must be acquired in special institutions, which we call universities, and maintained with constant upkeep, which we call analysis, criticism and debate. They are not granted by propping a heavy encyclopedia on your lap, nor are they taken away by efficient access to information on the Internet.

The new media have caught on for a reason. Knowledge is increasing exponentially; human brainpower and waking hours are not. Fortunately, the Internet and information technologies are helping us manage, search and retrieve our collective intellectual output at different scales, from Twitter and previews to e-books and online encyclopedias. Far from making us stupid, these technologies are the only things that will keep us smart.

 

Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard, is the author of “The Stuff of Thought.”

Die 40-Stunden-Woche hat ausgedient. Wer die talentierten unter 30-Jährigen in sein Unternehmen holen will, muss umdenken: Im Mittelpunkt steht die Aufgabe, nicht die Arbeitszeit. Zeiterfassung? Überflüssig!

Beispiel Best Buy: "In der Zentrale der US-Elektronikkette Best Buy werden mittlerweile mehr als 60 Prozent der 4000 Mitarbeiter ausschließlich anhand von Aufgaben oder Ergebnissen beurteilt. Fest Angestellte bleiben nur so lange im Haus, wie sie tatsächlich für ihre Arbeit brauchen. Aushilfen arbeiten eine festgelegte Anzahl an Stunden, aber sie können sich aussuchen, wann sie arbeiten. Beschäftigte, die an dem Programm teilnehmen, berichten von verbesserten Beziehungen zu Familie und Freunden, von größerer Treue zum Unternehmen, von mehr Konzentration und Energie."

Google vs Apple
Offenheit vs Kontrolle?

Scheinbar möchte auch Google das lezte Wort behalten und löscht verdächtige Apps von den Smartphones seiner Nutzer. Mehr dazu hier:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/199809/

Sind Konsumenten bereit diesen Kontrollverlust zu akzeptieren, wenn er ihnen nützt?

One of the big trends on the Internet today is people's penchant for measuring every aspect of their lives with the help of diaries and personal sensors. Most of the tools allow you to quantify your daily activity deal with fitness and exercise, but a number of new gadgets also try to measure how well you sleep.

We've listened carefully in order to figure out the best next steps. We recognize that we made a lot of changes, so we really wanted to take the time to understand your feedback and make sure we address your concerns.

The number one thing we've heard is that there just needs to be a simpler way to control your information. We've always offered a lot of controls, but if you find them too hard to use then you won't feel like you have control. Unless you feel in control, then you won't be comfortable sharing and our service will be less useful for you. We agree we need to improve this.

Today we're starting to roll out some changes that will make all of these controls a lot simpler. We've focused on three things: a single control for your content, more powerful controls for your basic information and an easy control to turn off all applications.

"Auf dem Land leben und trotzdem schnelles Internet haben – das sollte sich eigentlich nicht gegenseitig ausschließen."

It's better to stop surveillance control because it is the people who really want to be free

The six year old students in the Orange Class at Holy Trinity Rosehill school in Stockton-on-Tees in the North-East of England are on Twitter. The students tweet as @ClassroomTweets, sharing their thoughts and experiences every day in the classroom. They are able to update Twitter from a computer in the classroom that shows Twitter at all times. And their tweets are unmoderated by teacher @MultiMartin apart from a few sensible rules, including not being able to respond to messages or talk to other people on Twitter without a teacher present.