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

Once upon a time there was an island named Blogosphere, and at the very center of that island stood a great castle built of stone, and spreading out from that castle for miles in every direction was a vast settlement of peasants who lived in shacks fashioned of tin and cardboard and straw.

By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the product of their work, Web 2.0 provides an incredibly efficient mechanism to harvest the economic value of the free labor provided by the very, very many and concentrate it into the hands of the very, very few.

Culture is sustained in our synapses...It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.

We become, neurologically, what we think."(33)

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.

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