Esteban Rodriguez's Blog – February 2010 Archive (1)

Digital Amnesia: Reflections on Frontline's "digital_nation"

PBS's Frontline recently aired a program called digital_nation: life on the virtual frontier. The program raises some important issues about the affect of different technologies on the human psyche.



One guest argues that with each leap in communication technology something is lost in the everyday psyche of humans. He cites how Homeric bards could recite thousands of lines of epic poetry. But with the advent of books, humanity lost the ability to memorize large amounts information.… Continue

Added by Esteban Rodriguez on February 18, 2010 at 3:00pm — No Comments

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