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Drift Net > digital culture Study Hard with Silicon Brain
"Real life is just one more window."How dependent are you on your computer? With the use of wireless Internet connections and laptops, it’s becoming easier to bring laptops to classes where you have the ever expansive World Wide Web at your fingertips. Earlier this year, Christine Boese wrote an article on CNN.com about her students’ curious attachments to their computers. Sometimes, Boese writes, when her students didn’t know the answers to her questions they would helplessly stare at their computers and think, “The answer isn't in my carbon-based brain, but I know I got it right here, on silicon” as they searched frantically. Boese writes, the Internet is an extension of our Central Nervous System. So, as long as we can go online, we only have to remember the really important things, and for everything else, we can simply refresh our memories by linking to it or by storing information on our computers. Who doesn’t need the extra 40 GB of storage space? Online, offline, what's the difference? As one online student said, “Real life is just one more window.” |
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