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Alan Kay recommended it. He kept bringing it up. I finally read it last week. It's awesome. I think you can apply what people did with the TV to how people use
by da02 13y ago
Alan Kay recommended it. He kept bringing it up. I finally read it last week. It's awesome. I think you can apply what people did with the TV to how people use social media: a series of interruptions.
Someone posted the pdf of the 20th anniv. edition. Google: Amusing Ourselves to Death pdf
- dingfeng_quek 13y agoIt could be depressing as well, since the described effects correspond to the erosion of many important public institutions (like democratic governance). Seems like this decade is a good time for an update on this issue, now that entertainment technologies are ubiquitous and totally attention grabbing, and cognitive psychology gives it good scientific grounding.