Shirky, Carr, Sanger, and others on the Britannica blog
The Britannica Blog invited responses to Nick Carr’s Atlantic essay: This is your brain; this is your brain on the Internet. Shirky wrote yet another of his provocative yet completely implausible posts, to which Carr responded. I wrote a reply in defense of Tolstoy and the individual thinker. If you’re curious why I might need to defend Tolstoy and the individual thinker — well, leave it to Clay to come out against them.
Larry,
Thanks for contributing to our forum.
Tom Panelas
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Comment by Tom Panelas — July 21, 2008 @ 12:04 pm
Very interesting reading, Larry. I’m going to get a discussion going about it in my grad school class in postsecondary literacy instruction.
Comment by Stephen Ewen — July 29, 2008 @ 5:52 am