Is the Internet replacing our own memory?

[Mark Kohut]

Flusser describes a world fundamentally changed by the invention of the "technical image" and the mechanisms that support and define industrialized modern culture. He argues that whereas ideas were previously interpreted by written account, the invention of photography allows the creation of images (ideas) taken at face value as truth, not interpretation that can be endlessly replicated and spread worldwide. His essays identify players in this model (his lexicon includes the Apparatus -the camera-, the Functionary -the photographer-, and the Technical Image -the photographic surface-) and warn of rising illiteracy owing to an uncritical faith in photography's "reality." Flusser does not speak of specific photographs or images but of the larger forces at work in the increasingly technical and automated world.[1]


From: Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com>
To: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 1:07 AM
Subject: Is the Internet replacing our own memory?

I can only recommend Vilem Flusser...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vil%C3%A9m_Flusser

2011/7/15 Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>:
> http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/14/is-the-internet-replacing-our-own-memory/
>
> Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information
> at Our Fingertips
>
> http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2011/07/13/science.1207745
>
> ... I've already had to google for the word "amnesia" ("memory loss"?)
> this year, so ...
>
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