“puberty of the mind”
“[The Internet] creates a permanent puberty of the mind. We get locked in so much information, and the inability to sort that information meaningfully limits our capacity to understand. The last stage of knowledge is wisdom. But we are miles from wisdom because the Internet encourages the opposite of what creates wisdom—stillness. … On the Internet, there is no such thing as waiting; there is no such thing as stillness.”
—Mennonite pastor Shane Hipps, author of Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith
[Christianity Today, 5/09]
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