Tags: #term
Title: { The Shallows - What the Internet is doing to our brains
Author: & Nicholas Carr
page: 45

Definition

The Intellectual ethic, a set of assumptions about how the human mind works or should work.

• It is the message that a medium or other tool transmits into the minds and culture of others.

Ultimately, it's an inventions intellectual ethic that has the most profound effect on us.

• Rarely considered by inventors, as they are involved in solving a particular problem or untangling some thorny scientific or engineering dilemma that they don't see the broader implications of their work
  • Users of technology also oblivious to its ethic - they are concerned with the benefits they gain from employing the tool

ref: 202107301353 - Technological Determinism vs. Instrumentalists, 202107301043 - The four categories of technology, { Deep Work