'Pancake People' - a term used by playwright Richard Foreman to describe someone who knows very little about a lot of things. Knowledge spread thin.
Kind of like the first part of Huxley's quote; "Know something about everything, and everything about something".
This 2008 article from The Atlantic poses the question; is Google making us stupid?
Has instantaneous access to information, trivial or not, reduced our attention span to nothing?
With all the knowledge that Google has on hand, why do we still squander our time with the superfluous?
The first post of many.
Here is your quota for the day.
See you tomorrow; same bat time, same bat channel.
READ IT HERE
Kind of like the first part of Huxley's quote; "Know something about everything, and everything about something".
This 2008 article from The Atlantic poses the question; is Google making us stupid?
Has instantaneous access to information, trivial or not, reduced our attention span to nothing?
With all the knowledge that Google has on hand, why do we still squander our time with the superfluous?
The first post of many.
Here is your quota for the day.
See you tomorrow; same bat time, same bat channel.
READ IT HERE
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