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This is what thinking is: not the decision itself but what goes into the decision, the consideration, the assessment. It’s testing your own responses and weighing the available evidence; it’s grasping, as best you can and with all available and relevant senses, what is, and it’s also speculating, as carefully and responsibly as you can, about what might be. And it’s knowing when not to go it alone, and whom you should ask for help.
The conflict between old and new media is in many ways a dispute over who gets to control the “clocks” we live by; who gets to set the pace; who gets access to the technologies that make it easy to synchronize (or de-synchronize) large groups people. This is just the latest entry in a long history of disputes between groups that had different visions of how to mark time.
How Digital Media Distorts Our Sense of Time
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Nicola Green told me. “It’s wrong to be prescriptive: we have to trust people’s judgment.”
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