The Internet Makes me Pee LESS

There is a useless debate on Le Web over Le Years whether the internet makes you smarter or dumber . Let me chine in on that:

COULD. CARE. LESS

I know what Le Web does for me. I hold my pee in longer. It could be my age and gynormous prostate but I think it’s engagement. I sit, I read, I am engaged, I hold in a pee.

Clay Shirky has the important stuff on the subject of ‘smarter or dumber’:

The past was not as golden, nor is the present as tawdry, as the pessimists suggest, but the only thing really worth arguing about is the future. It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity. We are now witnessing the rapid stress of older institutions accompanied by the slow and fitful development of cultural alternatives. Just as required education was a response to print, using the Internet well will require new cultural institutions as well, not just new technologies.

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  3. Dave Pinsen says:

    I get how the Internet makes you pee less. But in my experience it keeps me from doing other things that made me pee less — namely, reading books. I think I got up once to pee while reading Jurassic Park straight through in 8 hours. I got sucked into Bonfire of the Vanities for hours at a time too.

    I used buy books for cross-country flights, but now some of them have in-flight WiFi. Now I’ve got three books on my girlfriend’s Nook and I’m still working on the first (granted, a non-fiction book). So: engaged, yes. But something has been lost as well.

  4. Dave Pinsen says:

    I get how the Internet makes you pee less. But in my experience it keeps me from doing other things that made me pee less — namely, reading books. I think I got up once to pee while reading Jurassic Park straight through in 8 hours. I got sucked into Bonfire of the Vanities for hours at a time too.

    I used buy books for cross-country flights, but now some of them have in-flight WiFi. Now I've got three books on my girlfriend's Nook and I'm still working on the first (granted, a non-fiction book).

    So: engaged, yes. But something has been lost as well.

  7. ivanhoff says:

    The Internet has made possible information and communication to travel faster than the speed of sound. Velocity means leverage and leverage solves problems that used to seem unsolvable. Internet has had the biggest contribution to human civilization’s living standard. The world is just starting to commutate and share. We are just in inning 2.

  8. ivanhoff says:

    The Internet has made possible information and communication to travel faster than the speed of sound. Velocity means leverage and leverage solves problems that used to seem unsolvable. Internet has had the biggest contribution to human civilization's living standard. The world is just starting to commutate and share. We are just in inning 2.

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