The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)
This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of today's underthirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a society of know-nothings.
This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of today's underthirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a society of know-nothings.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781585426393 (1585426393)
Publish date: May 15th 2008
Publisher: Tarcher
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Science,
Technology,
Computers,
Internet,
Culture,
Education,
Politics,
Sociology,
Psychology,
Social
The title of this book is a little insulting (I am under 3o after all), but it's hard to argue with the data Bauerlein gives in this book, The younger generation isn't reading books, doesn't care about politics, or really anything beyond their social lives. I hadn't realized that fewer and fewer o...
Now, to sum up my feelings on this book in a way that hopefully doesn't fulfill the author's dire prognostications: Bauerlein and I share, I think, a horror at the currently rising tide of anti-intellectualism in the USA. We trace the blame for this problem, however, to different sources. Bauerlein ...
Bauerlein pulls together some compelling statistics and makes some interesting observations. Anti-intellectualism in American society is a very real crisis, and he does a good but incomplete job in pointing to some of the reasons why. The issues he discusses regarding the impact of the Internet and ...
Author mixes topics together, presenting as a linked whole. Some topics have only one reasonable side, others are quite debatable. For instance:Study of prior scientific achievement may lead to breakthroughs, but is that necessarily so with study of prior artistic achievements? What about other skil...
I admit I did not read this book completely. I skimmed it, and found that while most of the information was interesting and thought provoking, it was information I had already read or known from other sources.As a better overall book in understanding what the digital age has done to our attention s...
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