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Spend an hour reading an article by Nicholas Carr or read my concise summary of the main point / pitfall of the article in less than 30 seconds?

Article by Nicholas Carr: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807...

My short + quick summary: http://gaggle.info/post/66/nick-carr-...

Thanks to John Battelle for the “heads up”: http://battellemedia.com/archives/004...

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Would you rather…

Spend an hour reading an article by Nicholas Carr or ready my summer of the main point / pitfall of the article in less than 30 seconds?

Article by Nicholas Carr: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807...

My short + quick summary: http://gaggle.info/post/66/nick-carr-...

Thanks to John Battelle for the “heads up”: http://battellemedia.com/archives/004...

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~LazyDaze offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 122 #
An Undisclosed Location | 2 months, 1 week ago (10 minutes after post)

Always the shorted one, that one by carr is tooooo long, by the time you have read it all you have to start over again because you have forgotten what it was about.

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paranoiaman offline Verified User (8 months, 2 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 14 #
An Undisclosed Location | 2 months, 1 week ago (21 minutes after post)

I’d rather know what the subject was, before reading either. Don’t waffle, just cut to the chase ;)

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An Undisclosed Location | 2 months, 1 week ago (38 minutes after post)

A-ha, ha. Having now read both, I must congratulate you on this post. Something of a satirical soundbite.
I must confess, however, that humour asides, I did prefer Carr’s article, particularly the discussion of the brain’s malleability and the bit at the end regarding role reversal in Kubrick’s “2001″.

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Help me with: Did they just create a new nation state, or what?
business-development offline Verified User (6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 91 #
Washington, DC, US | 2 months, 1 week ago (1 hour, 35 minutes after post)

What’s *REALLY* funny is that Vannevar Bush’s seminal “As We May Think” was *also* written in the Atlantic Monthly… — see also my tweet: http://twitter.com/nmw/statuses/83205… thweet, no?!?

BD

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An Unknown Location | 2 months, 1 week ago (2 hours, 58 minutes after post)

whatever is shortest, but what is the point in asking that?

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