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Comment Re:TV ain't broken? (Score 1) 839

by Volshebnyj Molotok (#38272576) Attached to: TV Isn't Broken, So Why Fix It?
It isn't just about what's on TV, but also the channel packages that are forced upon the us in order to get the channels that we might actually WANT to watch. Rather than letting us pick only the channels we want, we are forced to get a package that includes 500 channels... 490 of which we'll never watch, 5 more of which will be watched once every other month, 3 that will be watched once a week, and 2 that might get more regular viewing. If we could customize our content, that would go a long way toward fixing what's wrong with TV.
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How Is Technology Changing the Brain? 108

Posted by Soulskill from the resistance-is-futile dept.
An anonymous reader writes "An article at silicon.com explores how the use of technology might be changing the brain — including interviews with Nicholas Carr and Susan Greenfield. 'The research suggests the brain acts almost like a muscle - bulking up in regions required to perform oft-repeated mental tasks but diminishing in regions used for less common types of thinking. Or to put it another way, for example: do a lot of mental arithmetic, and your brain will get better at doing mental arithmetic. ... [Carr] goes on to suggest there is now a body of evidence that indicates the human brain adapts to suit how we use it. The question that follows is whether our technologies are making the best use of our grey matter.' The article makes an interesting point about how skill-loss is only part of the picture: 'When we look at technology we can't just look at loss, we also have to look at gain, and we also have to look at skillsets in the context of the modern world — our grandparents' skillset is not the skillset that will serve us the best.'"

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