wet wired for the web
October 25th, 2009
"Some questions can't be answered by Google" by Mykl Roventine
“For humans, this desire to search is not just about fulfilling our physical needs. (Washington State University neuroscientist Jaak) Panksepp says that humans can get just as excited about abstract rewards as tangible ones,” writes Emily Yoffe for Slate. In her essay discussing how the brain is wired for Google, Twitter, and texting… “And why that’s dangerous.”
I’ll get to that last bit of editorializing in a little bit.
“He says that when we get thrilled about the world of ideas, about making intellectual connections” she writes, “about divining meaning, it is the seeking circuits that are firing.” Read the rest of this entry »