“Triangularization Of Minds”
April 1st, 2010 | Published in Adventure, Signs
Patricia Cohen reports in “Next Big Thing” that literary criticism and psychology have merged, via technology, to form a hybrid science by which scholars are learning more about more about how we make memories, and what we think as we read.
Literature, then, may be headed toward a technological singularity along with the rest of human enterprise. Drat. Here I thought we’d be smoking meerschaum pipes and perusing cracked yellow tomes, even as the robohumans zoomed past us on their iFlyingWhales, listening to their crazy post-technocrunk…
Turns out instead we’ll be scanning our students’ brains and watching the screen flash green as they struggle through the texts we assign. This could be fun.
