I just think the act of writing one's thoughts down, or even sharing photographs for that matter (except on Instagram) has even less space than ever before. Not necessarily because younger generations than mine (I'm 40) don't want to think critically. It's because they're blasted with all kinds of information from all sides relentlessly. By 'information', I mean *everything:* knowledge, media, entertainment, phone apps, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Netflix, etc. Unless we teach ourselves and our kids to carve out time away from all inputs, we won't learn to think and by extension, learn to write stuff down.
On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 12:45 PM Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 7:15 AM Heather Madrone <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I asked my daughter to send me a recipe out of a cookbook I'd > > passed on to her. She texted a photo of the recipe to me instead of > > typing it into an email. > > > > This resonated with me as an illustration of the up and coming generations > using technology smartly. > > I remember writing long letters to my friends and family back in my college > days (early 90's). While I had access to email, a huge proportion of my > family and friends did not at that time. I remember, for example, taking > paragraphs to describe my first Pink Floyd concert to a friend in India I > was writing to. If I had had access to the technologies of today, I would > have taken short videos and photos and shared them with my friend, instead > of recalling the concert in my mind's eye, finding the words to describe > it, forming them and editing them in-memory to form coherent sentences and > writing them down. > > Thaths > -- > Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? > Carl: Nuthin'. > Homer: D'oh! > Carl: Unless you're crooked. > Homer: Woo-hoo! > -- H R Venkatesh JSK Journalism Fellow 2018-19, Stanford University Building a Coalition Against Disinformation <https://twitter.com/hrvenkatesh/status/992016047120310272> Co-organiser, Hacks/Hackers New Delhi Ph: +91 9811824503 Twitter: @hrvenkatesh
