Nobel laureate says Internet dumbs you down
10 Dec 2007 | 07:25 GMT
Laureate channels Spinola in anti-interweb rant
THE WORLD WIDE WIBBLE has "seduced a whole generation into its inanities" and created a world were people know nothing, according to the latest Nobel laureate.
When she collected the Nobel gong for Literature, Doris Lessing (88), said there was a discrepancy in the hunger for books between developing countries like Zimbabwe and the rest of the world.
She said that when she went to Zimbabwe the kids were begging for books and had taught themselves to read using labels on jam jars.
However in North London teachers moaned that many students never read books at all and the library was only half used.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Lessing complained that humanity was a fragmenting culture, where certainties of a few decades ago were questioned.
Lessing said it was common for kids of today, who have years of education, to know nothing of the world.
They might know a speciality, but they have never read a book.
She said that the internet has "seduced a whole generation with its inanities". Even reasonable people confess that, once they are hooked, it is hard to cut free.
The next thing they know they have wasted a whole day blogging. Sheesh kids of today eh?
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