Does information gotten from watching a 20hour series from a youtube educational playlist from say Stanford channel any less useful than that gotten from reading a book?

Man has and will always learn new things to survive. The medium through which the information is received has always changed and will always change. When books were invented man shifted from smoke signals to books. Books are great but at some point man had to let go of the smoke signals.

To heat up this discussion up a little, does watching House TV series make us dumb? (As opposed to reading a sci-fi novel). Does the fact that some of these TV shows' scripts are so intensely researched that they even have panels of writers make them better than good old books?

D

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Watchman <skunkingrahim@gmail.com> wrote:
@Jonas

"has shifted me from having
to know things to be able to look for things. Being able to recite a
poem or remember an exact quote does not make sense any longer as it
is more important to know how to find this information than it is to know
it"

Isn't that what i've just advocated against? Does this not mean that what we are doing encourages us to rely on a non-experiential lifestyle? When wanting to watch a new movie. What do you do first?

@Muoki
Cryptic. But true.

@sospeter

Compelling argument however when does this stop becoming a reference and become a lifestyle or moreover a necessary human function? Should it become a human function, when does it stop becoming a reference and become an influence?

Watchman.






On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 9:53 AM, <sospeter@elimu.co.ke> wrote:
Dear Watchman,

The internet does all that you have mentioned. It is not necessarily bad
that one no longer reads books. They still get the information, whether it
is through reading or injecting it into the system.

At the moment, we still read, but not books. Some of us listen too.

Man works through information and the human race will survive through
getting more information, which will make them come up with different ways
of doing stuff. Remember we started with sticks and stones for tools to
metal and now plastics and sand and soon graphene....see?

As for schools not having caught up, that will happen soon enough. I'm in
the business of providing a paradigm shift towards IT in schools. If the
government encourages this, we will get all schools online ama?

My Cents,
Regards.

> Tragic to some. ever heard about someone who had an accident and rather
> than
> help, people took out there phones and started recording it. It does make
> us
> feel like who we are not.
>
> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Jonas | Lamu Software <
> jonas@lamusoftware.com> wrote:
>
>> Can only speak for myself but the Internet has shifted me from having
>> to know things to be able to look for things. Being able to recite a
>> poem or remember an exact quote does not make sense any longer as it
>> is more important to know how to find this information than it is to
>> know
>> it. A lot of schools have unfortunately not caught up yet.
>>
>> It is not necessarily a bad thing but people who are not able to make
>> the shift (learn how to find reliable information) will be left behind.
>>
>> I grew up without television so I still read a lot but only novels not
>> tech books.
>>
>> Don't think the Internet is that much about craving tech, more about
>> information being freely available.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/03/2010 11:45 PM, Watchman wrote:
>>
>>> Every time a new tech launches, Man craves it. Granted it takes a while
>>> to implement for example the automobile transition from Horse and
>>> Carriage. But once it picks up.. e.g. the iOS devices, Man goes GAGA!
>>>
>>> What's the internet doing to us?
>>>
>>> Open discussion here.
>>>
>>> Is it making us a smarter community? more knowledgeable? more
>>> intelligent or just more flick information dependent?
>>>
>>> The general and most widely used internet terminology i know of today
>>> is.. Google it!
>>>
>>> heck, i use it too. But question is, how many of us actually read a
>>> book
>>> in this glorious day of the information highway?
>>>
>>> And yes, i do know it's a friday night.
>>>
>>> Watchman.
>>>
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