Bottleneck - Our human interface with reality Quotes

“The result is that the Web creates islands of opinion, fertile environments in which conspiracy theories thrive. A juicy fiction is read, replicated and propagated far more widely than a boring fact, so many fictions appear to be common knowledge.”
― Richard Epworth, Bottleneck - Our human interface with reality: The disturbing and exciting implications of its true nature

“this shows that the Google search tool behaves more like a sensational tabloid newspaper than an encyclopaedia.”
― Richard Epworth, Bottleneck - Our human interface with reality: The disturbing and exciting implications of its true nature

“just tried typing “why do men” into the address bar of Google Search, and the auto-complete function immediately suggested the following: “cheat?”, “rape?”, “have nipples?” presumably calculating that these are my three most likely questions! Searching for the phrase “why do men cheat?” in quotes, returns well over a million entries, more than twice the number that I get for the phrase “why do men work?”, suggesting that Google thinks that cheating is twice as popular as work, at least for men!”
― Richard Epworth, Bottleneck - Our human interface with reality: The disturbing and exciting implications of its true nature

“There is obviously much more to education than this, for tutorials, workshops and projects all help the student integrate the information they have absorbed through lectures and reading, into effective conceptual ideas.”
― Richard Epworth, Bottleneck - Our human interface with reality: The disturbing and exciting implications of its true nature

“The process of formal education in universities typically consists of listening to spoken text in lectures, and reading written text, as typified by the phrase “to read for a degree” in law for example. The use of this phrase implies that the study of written text has been considered an efficient and effective strategy for learning.”
― Richard Epworth, Bottleneck - Our human interface with reality: The disturbing and exciting implications of its true nature