> > --- Jason <jedi_spock@> wrote: > > > > Ray Bradbury Dead: Five Tech Predictions The Sci-Fi Author > > Got Right > > > > <snip> > > Fact: The Death Of Context > > > > Prediction: Bradbury said in the (his) future, the obsession > > with bitesize factoids would take away all sense of context > > from news and information. > > > > "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words > > to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how > > much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of > > non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' > > they feel stuffed, but absolutely `brilliant' with > > information. Then they'll feel they're thinking." > > > > Result: Wikipedia? > > > > > > --- turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > Result: The TM movement, and its supporters'/apologists' > curious belief that regurgitating the things they've > been told about spiritual practice makes them spiritual > practitioners, or even "experts." > >
I've never been to Iowa. So parroting how much corn Iowa grew last year dosen't make me an expert. We could be moving into a new era where one does not have to be an expert. Lets say a paradigm shift is taking place in how we access information. If you have a calculator, better to use it rather than use the old manual counting to do math.
