Our minds are being rewritten by the web.

Inattention, superficial, heavy taste, impatience ...

Internet addiction is not a new topic, the latest topic about the impact on the human world is ——— how the network changes our way of thinking? "The internet is turning us into robots like high-speed data processors," Carr, a former executive editor at Harvard Business Review, said in his bestselling book, "Shallow". The loss of the previous brain ", which in the United States has sparked an extensive discussion of how the Internet has changed human thinking, with 109 of philosophers, neuroscientists and academics in other fields hotly discussing it. And the American science writer, Maggie Jackson, wrote a book pessimistic and hopeless, called distraction: inattention to attention and the advent of the Dark Ages, he argued that humans are likely to be half a man and a half machine, because we are attracted to all kinds of information, always in a state of mind, he even thought that the network caused by distraction is a major obstacle to U.S. economic growth.

Earlier, the Shenzhen Network Media Association released the 2010 Shenzhen Internet Application and Network Media Development Research report, said the number of Internet users in Shenzhen has reached 698 50,000, internet penetration rate of 78.34%. In other words, Shenzhen has nearly 80% people online. Information is already overloaded, and humans have to update their brains to adapt to this fast-paced rhythm. Some even conclude that the internet has turned us into a new race. We think that we are in the brush micro bo, brush watercress, brush bar, but in fact the brush, it is probably our brain. Think about it, your mode of thinking, lifestyle, behavior habits have been rewritten by the network?

Inattention, half-hearted, convergent thinking, shallow, moral bottom line down, innovative ability weakened, impatient, heavy taste ... These characteristics to a certain extent, with the impact of a large amount of information, more alarming is that we have gradually adapted to even "enjoy" in a large amount of information to play in the Flash state, it is necessary to reflect on this trend, the network is just a tool, but not the designer of human thinking.

Updated information constantly distracted us

Some experts say that the network lets us switch from the information farming age to the hunting age. Good hunting? But find out that information is not a prey. We are constantly being overwhelmed by the information wave, submerged in a mass of information, at any time to worry about miss what news, we continue to Weibo, on MSN, on QQ, it seems to be synchronized with the times, and as if hope to surpass the times, in fact, we are just the information Age standard products. or "shallow" the author Carr enough ruthless, he said directly, "in the machine world, we are the organ of the machine." ”

People invented the network, the network invented the new human

This newspaper once planned a "seven days without mobile phone, send you a mobile phone" activities, the trend of the application of surging, many people said, "Not seven days without a computer", no mobile phone I can also q Q, MSN, mail ... What are you afraid of? More than half of the respondents chose the latter in a large survey, with "one months off the internet" and "one months without sex." "Can abstain from rice, not to ring the net" ——— many people with behavior verification, lifelong allegiance to the network.

The reliance on the web has long been a new topic, but it's always more than you can imagine. A few days ago, the Global Internet Development Report 2010 announced that the number of Internet users worldwide is 1.97 billion. That is to say, there are 1 Internet users in every 3 people on the planet. This is in line with China's internal ratio: among China's 1.33 billion people, the number of Internet users is 4 500 million, and 3 Chinese have 1 netizens. Earlier, the Shenzhen Network Media Association released the 2010 Shenzhen Internet Application and Network Media Development Research report, said the number of Internet users in Shenzhen has reached 6.985 million, internet penetration rate reached 78.34%. That is to say, more than 80% of people surf the Internet. And what is the Internet users face every day what kind of information Wang Yang? The Global Internet Development Report describes: As of the end of December 2010, the number of global web sites is 255 million, the number of e-mail users is 18 800 million, an average of 294 billion letters per day, of which 89.1% is spam.

An average American receives about 34G of information a day, the amount of 110,000 English words, equivalent to 1/5 of the computer's hard disk storage, according to a new US study. Psychologists believe that the human brain can only handle 173 billion bytes of information in a lifetime, about the same as 173G. By this reckoning, the amount of information Americans receive today has reached 1/6 of what they can handle in a lifetime.

"The internet is turning us into a high-speed data processor like a robot that loses its former brain." Carr, the former executive editor of Harvard Business Review, in his best-selling book, "Shallow," that he had published in the Atlantic Monthly article "Google makes us stupid?", both of which sparked a deep rethinking of the American intelligentsia's negative impact on the human race.

Carr worried that because of the network, we have gradually lost the ability to read deeply, no patience for deep thinking, the thought was cut, "lost the war and Peace", lost the Sheepskin Bible, lost the newspaper magazine, lost the heart of Tolstoy, the human is losing the brain.

"Internet addiction This argument is outdated, very few people mention, because no point of internet addiction is not as modern people." Even my parents are every day like a star as tired in front of the computer chess stock Brush Tianya. Anyway, the main theme of my life is surfing the internet, but working like a part-time job. One day apart from sleeping, more than 10 hours on the computer, Micro Bo, q Group, Forum, Watercress, Tianya, happy Net, Renren, mailboxes and other tasks multiple windows at the same time open ——— I can not miss any one of the points, I constantly upgrade the computer is to be able to start multiple tasks at the same time and do not affect the speed. Whenever someone comes out to talk, there is a hint that tells me there is new dynamic, life is like being divided into countless dialog boxes. I'll use iph O N E for the rest of the day. Always Brush micro-blog, stroll Tianya, look at the embarrassing encyclopedia, browse the network novel ... "The corporate propagandist admits that he is a standard network of new people," I also realized that this constant network status very affected my efficiency, Knowledge update and deep thinking, but on the other hand, I am also hungry for updated information, even if most of the information is rubbish. Sometimes I will be confused, in the end is we on the Internet, or by the Internet?

Watercress, "I have wasted a day", "procrastination group" and so have a large number of similar expressions, the central idea is, "as long as the Internet, I will do nothing to do", but at the same time, we also adapt to even "enjoy" this in the mass of information to play flash feeling.

We think that we are in the brush micro bo, brush watercress, brush bar, but in fact the brush, it is probably our brain. Think about it, your mode of thinking, lifestyle, behavior habits have been rewritten by the network?

More importantly, our generation is still in the process of rewriting, and the next generation of humanity has basically rewritten the completion of the "evolution" for the barrier-free adaptation of the network of new humans, they are no longer entangled in the typing of the substitution of handwriting to lose the beauty of Chinese characters, no longer confused with love letter transmission and network expression No regrets that electronic reading does not bring the touch and sanctity of paper printed matter, nor does it care that your thinking is cut into pieces like a birthday cake ...

"The Internet is making us smarter."

"Distraction" has become the mainstream of networked survival, Jackson, a science and technology writer in the United States, published in an article in Businessweek magazine. ' The average employee's attention span is just as big as the Sparrow's, and for about 3 minutes, the clerk in the cubicle will put down what he's doing, pick up the phone, check the mail, return the message, click on the video or stick something interesting on the FA C EBO O K, ' he said. He even raised this phenomenon to the height of national development: constant distraction is the key to the U.S. information economy.

In fact, distraction is just one of the things that the internet has to do with our thinking patterns. "There's no question about the question of whether the Internet makes you stupid," he said. Look at Weibo, it's all nonsense; the book market, the Fool, the TV dramas, the Shanzhai and the brain residue are the mainstream; the movie? Not to mention, let a person feel IQ this thing is like a cold joke. "A senior media insider has been very blunt in his conclusion," Look at what people are looking at now, watching Mango Taiwan's brain remnants of the drama "Palace" and the network of highly popular plagiarism "love Apartment", not to see the Korean drama "Palace" and "My Princess", that South Korea does have a royal? Our generation fortunately has a certain knowledge accumulation, after all, network prevalence of time is not long, the next generation of thinking way is further by the network format, heavy taste, bloodthirsty, superficial, impetuous ... These problems will only get worse. ”

As Carr wrote, "The internet is cutting off my ability to concentrate and meditate, and my brain is now looking to get information like a web-spreading message ——— a rapidly moving stream of particles. I used to dive into the ocean of words like divers, and now I'm driving a jet ski on the surface of the sea of words. "You see, we have developed the thinking of" parkour "stunt, in the information on the rapid jump, shuttle, quick, do not do any stay, looks really handsome ah, but in essence? half-hearted, convergent thinking, shallow, moral bottom line lower, innovative ability weakened, IQ impaired, impatient, heavy taste ... These traits are analyzed and the Internet is irrelevant. The Internet's "evil" is that it creates a huge amount of temptation ——— to a goat hair a lot of hot beauty girl, this is not a test of human nature? The essence of human nature is that everything can be resisted except temptation.

But there are also objections, said the network did not let us become stupid, we browse a lot of information every day, the breadth of the world's awareness greatly improved, wider range, more and more open horizons ... In fact, this is the network to bring the greatest danger, we have basically given up the introspection, and even into a "everyone on the understanding of astronomy under the knowledge of geography, the network lies in a lot of Zhuge Liang" illusion.

"I don't feel like I'm getting stupid or superficial on the internet for 24 hours, how fast I update my information, say the movie, I have not seen also know how," 3D Meat and Zen "is not erotic film but horror film," The Warring states "is a coal boss for a female star portrait to build a personal promotional film, Han not all sent Bowen said well, this is "The Price of love," says the book, the Heavy-tasting ' magnum ', which once saw dozens of foreigners faint, "seabed fishing you learn not" and micro-bo on a Zhang bottom fishing to the mountains to send takeout map; As for micro-blog, then I have not missed any hot spots ... "foreign white-collar Zhang's view is very representative, Many people think they have mastered a lot of information, from the "profound" is not far. But the problem is, if you try to talk to her in depth on any of these topics, it will be blocked, because she only has the slightest bits of information in her mind ——— can talk about anything, nothing reasearchers, this is called to become smart?

This conceit is a deeper negative impact of the Internet, and we have a bias towards our knowledge and ability. Psychologists Leon Rosenblitte and Frankeker found that people are often influenced by an illusion of knowledge: "The superficial familiarity is mistaken for deep understanding." As more and more information is available, the sense of familiarity is growing, and the illusion of knowledge is growing. Being able to get a lot of data at any time can deceive us into thinking that the knowledge that we can get quickly is mistaken for what we already have and can use. And if this illusion leads us to ignore the acquisition of true knowledge, we as individuals will eventually become stupid. ”

Open multiple windows, handle multiple tasks, and chat with several objects ... It also gives us the illusion that I am so powerful, so smart, that I can do so much at the same time ——— we think we're focusing on and dealing with more information, and actually not, you're just doing it. 2 minutes to switch to another thing for 3 minutes, at the same time, you don't even have to deal with the matter at hand, The so-called multitasking, but is patchwork to fool a number of tasks.

We overestimate the positive energy of massive amounts of information, overestimate our cognitive level, and abandon our thirst for deep thinking, which may be the greatest danger to the web.

1, the network rewrite the thinking of distraction

It's normal to open 5 windows and watch 3 videos.

Be able to switch several different topics at the same time, jump in a few actions in sync, advertising planning Jing once thought it proved powerful thinking, but recently she also vaguely doubt her state is a little too far. She can't use 10 minutes to browse only one page, but must also open 5 to 8 pages at a time and switch between them at any time; she can't endure 2 hours just to watch a video movie, but must also open at least 3 video, at any time pause; Just read the third chapter of the network novel can not wait to open another novel The first chapter is a natural habit. Even when you do these things, the TV has to be open, and she doesn't forget to change the channel because she's watching Weibo. In short, as long as there is a computer in front of the time, she has no way to concentrate on only one thing.

In doing one thing, the mind is always occupied by some other thoughts, and the attention is transformed into a single-minded one.

Hong Kong Enterprise network management R OD admits that there is at least 30% of the time he spends on opening the door to reopen a variety of different pages of this reflective action. That sounds familiar, and if you tell the doctor, he'll say, I'm afraid they've had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms, a compulsive disorder.

There is an English cold joke that says: "I received an email from my boss: Mr. Morgan, I'm sorry to inform you that although the company can accept your attention deficit disorder, I'm afraid you are deficient in creativity." So please come to the company in Wednesday to pack your things. Sincerely hope you OK. Then I suddenly realized that OK looks like a sideways person. ”

Whether the gene or the environment is the most important causative factor for ADHD is still inconclusive. But obviously, according to Darwin's theory of evolution, this environment will change genes sooner or later, with the current strength of people's networked survival. Researchers at the Iowa State State University in the US report in the new issue of pediatrics that the risk of attention deficit disorder is about twice times higher among middle school students who watch TV and play computer for a long time compared with their peers who are less likely to watch TV and play computer. Peterm.herford, former News vice president of the United States, said that because most of the minors like to see some similar to Mt V, such as the rapid flip-frequency of the program, over time, easy to develop attention to shorten the disease.

ADHD is almost all fast-food cultural companion. The essence of the latter is the rapid implantation of condensed content into the brain in a convenient form. Once the television, now coupled with the computer, nothing more than through video and audio to the impact of thinking, and constantly lead to the simplification and flatness of thinking. The biggest feature of the screen is the change of lens. Ask a TV man to know that the attention of the eye is very short, a half minutes of the lens is already attention can focus on the boundary time. The constant replacement of lenses leads to a continuous reduction of attention, loss of interest in text reading, and even the lack of means to concentrate on reading newspapers.

The characteristics of the network are divergent, and thoughtful, perfect, endless link function has encouraged our half-hearted. For example, you read a book in watercress, and there are "other books that people like to read this book", "who reads this book?", "The activities of the people who like the book", "the group that the people who like this book often go to" ... As you go deep into the web, you get lost in this divergent setting. Like a high school teacher Liu Ro, every time I just want to open the mailbox to receive letters, but first opened the lower right corner of the "small s husband Haunted Night Shop" Gossip, the picture of the girl's hair is good ah, more than two links to the Taiwan shopping site, the results bought a pair of shoes. What about the mail?

< self-service treatment working hours like brandished from the palace brandished broken nets

Meng, Enterprise Human resources Manager, ADHD mild patient

Don't think that attention deficit disorder is loser, I know a lot of successful people have this problem, the degree of difference. I've been distracted by this distraction for several years before, there are a lot of things on hand, is not to do, no matter how urgent the time, I am still wandering on the internet, watching the American drama, cast a few minutes of movies, stroll watercress, in the net secretly dishes ... Especially easy to be disturbed, I also specialize in the treatment of attention disorder books, such as "Innocent struggle", and then one because of procrastination, distraction, missed a good chance to switch career track, I made a decision, as long as the working hours, like brandished from the palace as brandished broken nets.

In fact, the treatment of distraction is the same as the secret to lose weight, is to their own ruthless, many times we give ourselves the excuse is that I need to surf the Internet at any time to check the information Ah, missed the important mail how to do, in case someone find me how to do? Every time before work, I focus on a period of time to deal with the mail, and then break the net, according to the planned steps to complete the work, confirmed that the work completed on the day before the internet again. If I have to work on the internet to do things, I take notes down, focus on a period of time to do. After a while, I slowly get used to the pattern of strictly separating the Internet and working hours, will not be in the review of new staff information on the whim of a micro-blog, will not be in the revision of the next quarter when the hiring plan was flying, once you have regained the ability to concentrate on things, this can control their own sense of accomplishment is really very cool.

2, the network rewrite thinking of the heavy taste

We're obsessed with "dog blood" information like money, sex and violence.

At 8 o'clock, the housewife who lives in Futian Center District opens the computer, first jumps out is a "sister-in-law remarried young uncle, but gave birth to father-in-law children's news video, silently see, she calmly in the post message: The news can match that" you can hate me, but this belly of the child is innocent ... I and your father is impossible, and my mother is willing to give up your help us, how can you heartless leave me. Gigi said, "If I had seen this news four or five years ago, I would have shouted angrily: How could this be!" the Beast! But experienced sister Zhaoqin, Xiao Yue, Shanghai Beach, 40 million Professor Dong, Kangxi Ten grandson to the restoration and so on Thunder rolling event, if one day my brother said, he fell in love with my cousin, I might be able to answer it with ease: congratulations. ”

Since "division too you from the Rite Bar" genre, heavy taste with the help of the network, the scale is more and more wide, the dosage is more and more fierce. Netizens said that "foreign affairs asked Google, inside things to ask Baidu, sexual intercourse asked Tianya", psychological bottom line is used to break. You think the male love scale has been very big, but, no, there are father and son, no, there are boys and girls, no, there are men degeneration into women in order to be with the woman he loves together. In fact, imperceptibly, our openness to homosexuality almost catch up with the Wei and Jin dynasties. Shenzhen Netizen m Oden that it is estimated that there will be no more gender this concept, because even if the birth is a man, who can guarantee 20 years later, he is a man? People may be happy not happy to go transgender. And the conversation is said to be like this, boys: at least I already know my child's surname, you do not know. Girl retorted: But at least I can guarantee that my child must be mine, can you promise?

Heavy-tasting stimuli beyond normal intensity and frequency are not entirely unhelpful to renewing thinking and values. Network heavy taste is in fact proportional to the amount of information is the inevitable choice, when the information is not developed, a "restaurant cooking oil Recycling" news, can let the people of the whole country shocked and discussed last year. But as middle-aged Wenqing Wang Yaoxin said: "Poisonous milk powder, dyed steamed bread, ink vermicelli, the more I know the more I was calm, not that we spread out is a periodic table of elements?" as a dedicated periodic table, I am waiting to see the next round of the element. ”

The huge base of network information is the true meaning of the audition, in this information contest, a message, a photo, want to be seen, in addition to more and more strange, more and more sensational, give up the scale, they also really can not think of what better packaging. When and the highway rescue dog appeared on the same news home page, the children fell into the lime pool, minors burglary and other news, most people should be like a sophomore student Su Dongdong reaction like "completely did not see."

Money, sex, violence, these three elements are considered the Internet age attracts attention of the treasure. Italian semiotics Eco once said that it was extremely difficult for all artists to portray normality, whereas it was easy to describe metamorphosis, crime, rape and torture. The plot of masochism is often more easily broken than romantic drama, with a lower repetition rate. Obviously, heavy taste is the result of emphasizing natural selection in the network ecology of rapid response, powerful interaction, as to whether it will "become a heavy taste, lose also heavy taste", at the same time as its receiver and initiator, we have to ask for more than a blessing a way to go?

Self-help treatment

Quit your low IQ and talk to smart people.

Chengno, a graduate student of sociology Reading

When I was in college, I watched "Red Rose and White Rose", and I got angry and left the scene. Now watch a film, I do not want to "uncensored" too sentimental ——— age is not face is on the one hand, but more importantly, frequent access to the internet found that the news than Huang Bizarre, TV drama is far inferior to the online from the explosion of dog blood, one day full of food nothing dry Sungo, found their moral bottom line has been low to dust.

What do we do? I was cruel to organize their own favorites, the Tianya entertainment gossip this collection directly deleted, quit the watercress a variety of heavy taste groups, micro-blog clean up the cancellation of a group of retarded rogue attention ——— of course, I am not saying that from the three vulgar, but I want to stay away from the three vulgar, my policy is, can be heavy taste, But the heavy taste must be promoted to a certain theoretical state. Whenever there are wise people to attend the dinner, I will attend, and pay attention to their news ah, social phenomenon of interpretation, I found that the great smart man is, can be in the serious read out of evil, can also be promoted into elegant song. In addition, I built a text document on my Computer desktop, ask oneself even play micro Bo, see "Kangxi Come", stroll Renren, must always pay attention to collect smart sentences, copy down, update their own sentence library, so write a paper or write articles to the magazine their own way to express more yuan. In fact, the heavy taste has the grade, you look at some clever heavy taste jokes, fools absolutely do not understand.

Deep thinking and serious reading belong to ancient times?

The advantages of the Internet is obvious, and the drawbacks of its understanding, usually we stay in the online games, yellow sites and other fields, and did not change an angle, to explore the network of our thinking model changes. Vast amounts of information are indeed plentiful. But the Roman philosopher, Seneca, 2000 years ago, said, "Nothing goes but nothing goes." We thought that the massive information increased various possibilities, the sea wide by the diving, the sky high any bird flies, and writes "Sends you a bullet" the Liu to say, how do you know is not the sea wide by the fish choke, the sky high any bird falls!

The impatience of the network rewriting thinking

1 minutes of video and more than 140 words are too long

"If a movie does not show up in the 3rd minute, if a novel with three chapters has not yet come out of the baggage, if the article more than 300 words are not segmented, then it is not worth me to continue to spend time on it." "The freelance writer Michael Rabbit admits that he is the Chinese who has been pressed into the fast-forward button as described in the new weekly."

On the network, the impatient person's computer keyboard on the first grinding is F5 (refresh key), they first learn to use is shortcut keys, still want to grab the "sofa" rejoiced. They are always urging, shopping on the website sellers urge buyers fast payment, 3 days have not received the goods, buyers will be mad; the message on the video site, millions of actually only one meaning: When to update? Each Chat dialog box is a battlefield, typing a little slower, a few lines of question mark exclamation point roared to throw over; Finally, even typing all give up, direct voice SMS, play T Alkbox.

In their ideal, all the best news can be solved within 140 words, in fact, as long as there are headings on the line, they are the title party. Bell, the bank manager, said, "Don't say anything, he even feels like 1 minutes of video is too long to see the picture." The 22-Year-old blue sister asked seriously: "With Weibo, do people still need to read the newspaper?" she said, she felt that the most efficient online is the jokes and quotations, short and easy to circulate. The rush to get more information seems like a way to show off to other people: I've been here, I've seen it, I know it, you know? But in fact, almost all the networks know that molecules are actually providing services for this.

And then back to the problem of choice, because the network offers more than the most heinous options. is faster than the tide, every second is updating the alternate information creates a time paradox, in order to not miss the most valuable, the most ostentatious information, in order to waste time on the most meaningful things, so need more time to choose. Impatient, seize the time, while the lack of patience, energy dispersed and delay. On the surface our worry is to save time and anxiety and planning, but in fact, as the American missionary Jasseux Heng Smith said, the Chinese disregard of time is manifested in their diligence, they work non-stop, in fact, is constantly wasting time.

Wired magazine once published an article, "Let us crazy 33 things", copiers, printers, telephones, computers are included in the list of items that will make us anxious. These things were invented to make life more convenient, and ultimately to make people more impatient.

Self-service treatment look at a disc every day read a long article

Shimi, corporate propaganda personnel

I found myself in the game with special anxiety, always afraid of wasting time, always impatient, and doing things become very procrastination, so I have to train myself to focus on one thing for a long time.

It's a good choice, and I'll choose a good, nutritious film, select a batch, put in watercress want to see the list of movies, every day to see a disc, see the time to prohibit themselves to do anything else, concentrate on the end of the whole, a lot of film began really stuffy, but endure down, will always find a burst point, even the King's speech I've seen it all in one shot.

After watching the movie, I will go to the watercress, stick to the film review, even if it is 3000 words ——— sounds like this is not a training, but you know, for the network impatient patients, can completely do not press the fast key to read a disc, a word does not leak to read a long article, it is a difficult task!

Psychologists do not say that the difficult thing, as long as the persistence of 2 weeks, will become a habit? Now I slowly accept the time-consuming, rather than crashing through the web like headless flies.

The superficial thinking of network rewriting

No thinking, no memory, no innovation become a common habit

Our thinking is working with digital products, to launch the light and light competition. When was the last time you thought about a problem, reading a book, and having a serious conversation?

As early as last year, Weibo has just sprung up, Yuchangjiang, a sociology professor at Peking University's Shenzhen Graduate School, reminds us that our thinking may be cut to pieces by Weibo, losing the ability to think deeply. The prophecy is now largely realized. We not only lack the ability to think deeply, but also cut off the demand, even think that the depth is already a relic, should be put to the museum. "The internal process of using the Web instead of memory to circumvent the consolidation of memory is that we are at risk of being emptied of the brain." Carr in Shallow.

"With the search engine, but also knowledge to do?" Baidu know on the line, I do not need to know, if Baidu search is not, I generally ignore. "College student Amy is proud of her superficial. Indeed, the knowledge storage function of the internet has fuelled our inertia, making some people think that not only the memory of knowledge is unnecessary, but even understanding is dispensable. Therefore, we simply take a shallow view instead of deep reading ——— shallow reading in the strengthening of our reflective response, visual processing capacity, while the loss of our deep thinking and creative ability. Literary critic and American Swan Bockets in Gutenberg's Elegy, he believes that computers and other electronic media are destroying people's ability to "read deeply". His students, because of the popularity of electronic devices, become accustomed to skimming, scanning, they can not be immersed in a novel like themselves.