Taking Time to Think

We don't have to learn. We don't even have to download and store the knowledge as we did it in the spirit of the pre-Cloud Internet. All we need to do is stay connected and pay attention (the span of which has shortened from 15min in 1960 to 4s in 2010) and let the digital technology do the work by distributing the facts of our encounters with the objects of interest. The process of applying the knowledge is being gradually externalized by diverting the mental traffic from the brains to the techno-objects. In that respect, it is us who are the extentions of media, and not the opposite.

Well-established techno-personality is defined by the ability to effectively connect the bits of knowledge – without memorizing – into the personalized digital networks. The networks which, despite of their potential and complexity, are external technological structures.

There is this fascinating relationship between technology and time. And there is also a curious link between thinking and time. But the origin of these relationships can not be unravelled unless we take time to think.