Yes, what a horrid fate to have the weeks and months needed to think ideas through.
Thing is, thinking ideas through on your own sometimes doesn't help much. For ideas to really develop, they need dialogue, and experimentation and evidence, and for people to communicate with each other. IMHO People who are left to think about things on their own for too long can become defensive and obsessed with their own ideas and end up in dead ends, like Huxley did with his ideas about drug-enhanced hypnotism.
The internet is like a Large Hadron Collider for Ideas.
How horrible to go to a library to find what you need.
Well, frankly yes I find the notion of going to a physical ___location to find out simple bits of knowledge pretty horrible. You really shouldn't underestimate the immense potential we now have to access knowledge very quickly. Its fashionable to disparage it but frankly I think its a wonder of the modern world.
The sheer inhumanity of going 20 minutes without compulsively checking a glowing screen because you feel restless
Thing is, thinking ideas through on your own sometimes doesn't help much. For ideas to really develop, they need dialogue, and experimentation and evidence, and for people to communicate with each other. IMHO People who are left to think about things on their own for too long can become defensive and obsessed with their own ideas and end up in dead ends, like Huxley did with his ideas about drug-enhanced hypnotism.
The internet is like a Large Hadron Collider for Ideas.
How horrible to go to a library to find what you need.
Well, frankly yes I find the notion of going to a physical ___location to find out simple bits of knowledge pretty horrible. You really shouldn't underestimate the immense potential we now have to access knowledge very quickly. Its fashionable to disparage it but frankly I think its a wonder of the modern world.
The sheer inhumanity of going 20 minutes without compulsively checking a glowing screen because you feel restless
"Haha they made a handheld device that contains all human knowledge and now we make fun of each other for looking at it too much" https://twitter.com/Arr/status/309565153924505601