How Information Technology Changed Our Perceptions

The emergence and development of the global network can be considered an event, comparable in importance to the invention of printing: the technology of printing mobile letters for a couple of centuries has turned all the principles of reproduction, distribution and consumption of information. The Internet has sufficed for the same several dozen years.

How did this change ourselves? What are the characteristics of the perception of information by today's average web user? Do they have any positive or negative consequences? Let's try to answer these questions.

We are faster
Now we perceive more data per unit of time, our "bandwidth" has increased.

The daily volume of information necessary for assimilation grows, the time for consumption of individual fragments becomes less and less. At the same time, the information capacity of messages tends to remain at the same level. This leads to a "condensation" of messages and an increase in our "bandwidth".

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