Essential Reading
9. Death hoaxes
Is Kanye dead? Did Billie Joe Armstrong die? Was Bono in a plane crash? No? But I read it online! It MUST be true!
10. Celebrity sex videos
Did we really need to see that one with Scott Stapp and Kid Rock?
11. Musical memory
I admired people who had an encyclopaedic knowledge of music. Ask them any question and they could answer it. Now we don’t have to remember anything. Just whip out your Tricorder (iPhone, Blackberry, Pre, whatever), Google the question and voila! You have your answer.
Again, I must underscore that I could not live without the Internet nor do I advocate that we go back to the way things were. That would be unacceptable in so many ways. But whenever a distruptive technology comes along, things get, well, disrupted. And sometimes, the new isn’t always better than the old.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to yell at some kids who are on my lawn.
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Memory about anything….?
I was over at my friend’s place and we were talking about tunes and flicks and we could not remember the name of this one movie.
We were both quoting lines from the movie but could not think of the title. We could only think of the tag line “Giv’er”
I decided to not look it up and see how long it took to remember the name of that movie (that I own and had watched at least three times).
It was painful to know that in about two minutes I could figure out everything about that flick. I chose to ride it out and three days later “FUBAR” jumped in my head! Relief!
I seriously believe the internet will change the wiring of our brains in terms of memory and recall. Who knows, I am the furthest from a scientist you can get.
Try this, though….If you have been out of school for a few years, try handwriting. At one point I was great at it and it took me a few days of trying to get it back.
Not quite like riding a bike…
JZ
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I think the internet is changing the way we think – period, as Jamie alluded to. Same thing with me and my friends. Over dinner the other night, we had to consult the iPhone Wikipedia application to settle no less than 5 pop culture/music discussions (album names, which Beastie Boy has cancer, etc). With information so easily accessible, we can give up and not have to rack out brains, like Jamie did.
I think we’re exposed to so much more information, that’s there so much more going on in our lives (complex video game plots, tv show plots and characters, 100s of accessible bands, youtube videos, etc) that it is impossible to remember things the way we used to. Its happening to me and i refuse to blame age (im only 29!).
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Personally on the whole my response to this little series of blogs would be “Meh, who cares?” Yeah, some of the things you brought up will most definitely be missed, however alot of these I personally don’t think should really be worried about. Who cares what any Youtube or Twitter commenter has to say about music? Just ignore them and save yourself the headache and good discussion can still be had. Same goes for Rickrolling which has kinda died off anyway, just ignore what’s left of it. Don’t be gullible enough to fall for death hoaxes and you’ll be fine. And finally why should anyone care about celebrity sex videos or who has the best “music memory”. That’s ridiculous. The internet’s effect on music has its pros and cons but you just happen to have listed a couple cons that IMO don’t really matter.
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The internet has changed the way we interact with everything, remember picking up a phone, meeting at a coffee shop. That is all gone, now we hide behind the internet to interact with people online rather than in person. The same can be said about music. We have changed the way it is consumed. Remember carrying around a CD wallet, with the player. All gone, now I carry around my entire collection on my ipod. As the internet grew we could consume on demand music and video, why sit around watching muchmusic to see what they would play when we could go online and watch it. I am still surprised bands are investing in music videos. What I’m trying to say is the way we experience music has changed from a very personal experience to more of the hiding behind a screen experience.
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