More about the dangers of Twitterism
In a previous post, I commented on George Packer’s unfavorable remarks about Twitter at the New Yorker Magazine blog and Nick Bilton’s responding criticism of Packer and paean to Twitter at the New York Times Bits Blog. Packer has responded in turn and I think his entire riposte is worth reading. But here’s a little of the flavor:
There’s no way for readers to be online, surfing, e-mailing, posting, tweeting, reading tweets, and soon enough doing the thing that will come after Twitter, without paying a high price in available time, attention span, reading comprehension, and experience of the immediately surrounding world. The Internet and the devices it’s spawned are systematically changing our intellectual activities with breathtaking speed, and more profoundly than over the past seven centuries combined. It shouldn’t be an act of heresy to ask about the trade-offs that come with this revolution.
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