In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse

Re:In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epi... by agumonkey on Thursday November 28, 2024 @05:32PM (#42269012)

I'm mildly affected by "modern web" issues, and I reckon that the imaginative part of my brain is in a coma whenever I browse these sites. The minute I'm outside of an internet connection, a whole lot of emotions, ideas, plans come back at once. And very very rarely can I browse the web while not losing that. This is something I didn't experience before... say smartphones, even with a good dsl line, i wasn't dilluted in pages likes that.

ps: now that I think about it, it started around the ajax era.. as soon as a webpage could change parts in the blink of an eye your perception of the web is altered IMO.

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Re:In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epi... by nicbou on Thursday November 28, 2024 @07:23PM (#42269683)

I experience the same thing when I travel, especially when I travel on foot or by bicycle. These long periods of low stimulus thought are really helpful. It makes me want to do a lot of things off-screen.

When I am home I really struggle to put things into practice because the easiest thing to do when I wake up is to look at my phone before I sit at my computer.

I do a lot of meaningful work on the computer, but I’m uneasy about how frictionless it is to just be on the computer and never act in the real world.

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