I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way we think.

In popular books and articles, information technology writer Carr has worried over the ways that algorithms like those employed by Google are reshaping the ways we think.

As soon as you introduce the mechanical clock, you get a radically different view of time. Suddenly, it's not a flow; it's a series of discreet, precisely measurable units, seconds, minutes, hours, and so forth.

I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way we think.

The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.

We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.

I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery.