למידה, אינטרנט ... ומה שביניהם

By 1870, they (רופאים) once again found their services in demand by a growing group of people seeking medical care: seemingly healthy men and women, usually living in cities, who experienced physical pain, emotional distress, and profound exhaustion. To explain this condition, leading neurologists George Beard of New York and S. Weir Mitchell of Philadelphia combined the European science of nervous energy with a conservative suspicion of the social changes taking place in late-century America.

The article also notes that then, like now, the concerns are accompanied by an encouragement to return to the traditional ways of doing things (in this day and age - encouraging kids to 'play proper games' or have 'genuine relationships') rather than highlighting ways of healthy adaptation to the new technology.

Nick argues that we are losing our ability to “read deeply,” e.g. read a whole book and contemplate it, without “distraction.” The problem is he’s using an antiquated yardstick to measure the quality of thought.

Maybe I don’t need 250 page books anymore because the web enables me to connect ideas and create narratives that I used to depend on book authors to do for me, because I wasn’t able to access all the information and connect all the dots myself.

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