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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
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"Fortune favors the connected mind." — Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From.
"City ideas, like cities, are fashionable. But fashions change quickly, so city ideas live and die on short cycles. The opposite of city ideas are 'natural ideas', which account for the big leaps forward and often appear to come from nowhere. These ideas come from nature, solitude, and meditation." — Jonathan Harris.
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Commentary on technologies of reading, writing, research, and, generally, knowledge. As these technologies change and develop, what do we lose, what do we gain, what is (fundamentally or trivially) altered? And, not least, what's fun?
Alan Jacobs
Alan Jacobs is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Honors Program of Baylor University and the author, most recently, of How to Think and The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography. His homepage is here.
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How to Read Well in an Age of Distraction
Watch video of Alan Jacobs discussing his book in a Washington, D.C. lecture in June 2011.
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