In-Reply-To: <4C2B3917.5000406@iridiumpg.com> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 00:53:17 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <3237BDC3-CD08-4FB5-8A28-AE8AD2E67806@gmail.com> References: <4C2B3917.5000406@iridiumpg.com> To: nexa@server-nexa.polito.it X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1078) The effects of the internet Fast forward Fear of a fried future Jun 24th 2010 IN 1492, the same year that Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic, a = Benedictine abbot named Trithemius, living in western Germany, wrote a = spirited defence of scribes who tried to impress God=92s word most = firmly on their minds by copying out texts by hand. To disseminate his = own books, though, Trithemius used the revolutionary technology of the = day, the printing press. Nicholas Carr, an American commentator on the = digital revolution, faces a similar dichotomy. A blogger and = card-carrying member of the =93digerati=94, he is worried enough about = the internet to raise the alarm about its dangers to human thought and = creativity. = http://www.economist.com/node/16423330?story_id=3D16423330&source=3Dmost_r= ead=