Computers don’t surrender. According to Frank Schirrmacher’s latest publication "Payback" our media society is in the middle of a techno-social transformation. Algorithms are increasingly powering our information hunt, at the same time crippling our capability to solve problems independently. The digital information bombardment is eroding our ability to concentrate and reflect. We are busy being converted into pancake people that are continuously scanning their social media accounts and less and less planning - reacting to immediate stimuli only. To cut a long story short: The pace of our media society is overcharging us; but not enough - the external brain, i.e. the web cloud that we all feed and live on, is rewiring our internal brain. As both brains are here to stay the question is how we will maintain our human skills as we embed ourselves in technology. "Payback" is worth the money and time but in most parts reads like a German interpretation of Nichals Carr's publications, e.g. Is Google making us stupid? or The Shallows.
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Computers don’t surrender. According to Frank Schirrmacher’s latest publication "Payback" our media society is in the middle of a techno-social transformation. Algorithms are increasingly powering our information hunt, at the same time crippling our capability to solve problems independently. The digital information bombardment is eroding our ability to concentrate and reflect. We are busy being converted into pancake people that are continuously scanning their social media accounts and less and less planning - reacting to immediate stimuli only. To cut a long story short: The pace of our media society is overcharging us; but not enough - the external brain, i.e. the web cloud that we all feed and live on, is rewiring our internal brain. As both brains are here to stay the question is how we will maintain our human skills as we embed ourselves in technology. "Payback" is worth the money and time but in most parts reads like a German interpretation of Nichals Carr's publications, e.g. Is Google making us stupid? or The Shallows.