30 July 2008 - 14:32Eric Schmidt Responds to “Is Google Making Us Stupid…”

ad age response A link to an AdAge video broadcast where the Google CEO responds to the Nicholas Carr article that was featured here on the blog a couple of weeks ago titled Adult ADHD and the decline of the book as “media”. The basic summary of Schmidt’s response: “it’s the same thing people said about TV forty years ago and we are smarter than ever”.

I am obsessed more than ever about the book as an “unplugging” from *all* electronic media and the value that ritual may offer us over the next 100 years.

Of course I am prejudiced b/c we are in the book business, but there is something therapeutic about what paper (no, not e-paper) does to my eyes if I can muster enough mental discipline to not be distracted in the first five minutes. Call me old school. I also still like taking hikes in the woods.

Watch the video here

- mitchell