No Time to Think
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- Опубликовано: 6 мар 2008
- Google Tech Talks
March, 5 2008
ABSTRACT
Vannevar Bush's 1945 article, "As We May Think," has been much celebrated as a central inspiration for the development of hypertext and the World Wide Web. Less attention, however, has been paid to Bush's motivation for imagining a new generation of information technologies; it was his hope that more powerful tools, by automating the routine aspects of information processing, would leave researchers and other professionals more time for creative thought. But now, more than sixty years later, it seems clear that the opposite has happened, that the use of the new technologies has contributed to an accelerated mode of working and living that leaves us less to think, not more. In this talk I will explore how this state of affairs has come about and what we can do about it.
Speaker: David M. Levy
David Levy earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Stanford University in 1979 and a Diploma in Calligraphy and Bookbinding from the Roehampton Institute (London) in 1983. For more than fifteen years he was a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where his work, described in "Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age" (Arcade, 2001), centered on exploring the transition from paper and print to digital. During the year 2005-2006, he was the holder of the Papamarkou Chair in Education and Technology at the Library of Congress. A professor at the UW Information School since 2000-2001, he has been investigating how to restore contemplative balance to a world marked by information overload, fragmented attention, extreme busyness, and the acceleration of everyday life.
When I first saw the length of the video, I wished it were less than 7 minutes. After I finished watching it, now I know why.
I first met Dr. Levy in 1970, when we were suitemates at our undergraduate college. Dr. Levy is one of the most thoughtful and profund thinkers I had ever met. From this talk, it is apparent that Dr. Levy still amply deserves that distinction.
Great talk. I have really enjoyed all of these Google Tech Talks. I feel this talks goes well with David Allen's and Merlin Mann's Getting Things Done philosophy to clear the runway so that we can get back to thinking at 40,000 ft.
This talk prompts me to think about how the speed has to do with group competition. If you take a long view it's like from the moment the first band of hunter-gatherers encountered another band we've been in this frantic race for security. Developing weapons, growing our group's numbers, everything to make absolutely sure we're not at risk of being obliterated by the Other, by Unknown means.
Information overload crisis? Solution: mechanize learning coupled with man/machine interfacing. Personal Agent tech.
Really a wonderful talk. The vision is grand and I really think this kind of idea will have much bigger impact in the future.
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To have leisure is to practice liberty. Leisure is critical consciousness.
"It would be folly to set up a program under which research in the natural sciences and medicine was expanded at the cost of the social sciences, humanities, and other studies so essential to national well-being." - Vannevar Bush
that is awesome john -
This talk is very interesting.
Our environment is becoming surrounded with more and more software and machines.
We spend more and more time with computers. Do you spend more time with your spouse or with the computer?
Not only that. We try to mimic software and computers. We try to act as them: fast and in a mechanic way.
It is not just about thinking, it's about behavior. Are we behaving like humans or like computers or machines.
What about the title "No Time To Be Human"?
Tnx for that talk.
After I got my Ph.d in Computer Science at Stanford. I decided to move to London to Write in Old Calligraphy and Bind Books... lol...
You don't have to work hard to make time for leisure, and isn't usually a means of production. Its the typically the description, or outline, of the mechanism for production.
We have transformed from ***Human Beings*** into ***Human Doings*** !
But everyday is already 'Only listen if you choose to day'.
Brilliant.
Where is the space n time he asks at half way point. Idk anything except that neither exist. And neither can we think…as in create a thought. We can’t create an opinion. Every ‘thing’ is actually a thought. So we got it backwards maybe.
....with the internet i don´t need to live near a big city.....and that is "time to think".....and it is cheap to travel to any city if i need to...
like my father many scientists and thinkers were limited by the technology of their time