Screen LibraryIntelligence in the digital age : how the search for something larger may be imperiled /
Beginning with a discussion of how the Internet and digital technologies may be affecting people's attention spans, working memories, and capacities for deep thought and reading at a level that becomes addictive, the book then moves to discussions which concern how this development might impede...
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Rowman & Littlefield,
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| Publisher Address: | Lanham, Maryland : |
| Publication Dates: | [2020] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Beginning with a discussion of how the Internet and digital technologies may be affecting people's attention spans, working memories, and capacities for deep thought and reading at a level that becomes addictive, the book then moves to discussions which concern how this development might impede the search for a larger, metaphysical intelligence. |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 121 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-114) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781475854589 (paperback) : 1475854587 (paperback) 9781475854572 1475854579 |
| Index Number: | HM851 |
| CLC: | TP393.4-05 |
| Call Number: | TP393.4-05/L625 |
| Contents: | The search for something larger in a new age -- Digital minds -- Habituated to addiction -- Thought, memory, and reality -- A distracted awareness and the river of thought -- Creative thought and the digital barrier -- Art and culture in the digitlal age -- Insight, art, and a higher awareness -- Space and time in the digital world -- The meaning of freedom in the digital age -- Consciousness in cyberspace. |