{"id":434,"date":"2008-06-30T01:58:35","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T08:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blog\/?p=434"},"modified":"2008-07-29T00:28:35","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T07:28:35","slug":"i-google-therefore-i-dont-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2008\/06\/30\/i-google-therefore-i-dont-think\/","title":{"rendered":"I Google, therefore I Don&#8217;t Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Gerry Pareja sent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2008\/jun\/22\/googlethemedia.internet\">this article<\/a> by John Naughton from The Observer, responding (I think very well) to Nicholas Carr&#8217;s &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200807\/google\" target=\"_blank\">Is Google Making Us Stupid?<\/a>&#8216; in The Atlantic, but I can&#8217;t say that its arrival is what distracted me from my previous line of thought. In fact I was just tired, but feeling my need for sleep as a sign of lack of commitment-to-task prompted me to start also on my own intended response to Carr &#8211; and others who decry the influence of the web and other technology  on our mental capacities.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But again dear imaginary reader you will have to wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Gerry Pareja sent this article by John Naughton from The Observer, responding (I think very well) to Nicholas Carr&#8217;s &#8216;Is Google Making Us Stupid?&#8216; in The Atlantic, but I can&#8217;t say that its arrival is what distracted me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2008\/06\/30\/i-google-therefore-i-dont-think\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,36,33,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-literature","category-psychology","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}