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Net dumbs us down: Nobel prize winner

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New Nobel laureate Doris Lessing has used her acceptance speech to rail against the internet, saying it has "seduced a whole generation into its inanities" and created a world where people know nothing.
Nữ nhà văn Doris Lesssing, người mới đoạt giải Nobel văn học, bà đã phát ngôn để xỉa xói mắng "internet" rằng: "nó đã quyến rũ tất cả thế hệ trẻ vào sự hấp dẫn vớ vẩn của nó" và nó tạo ra một thế giới toàn người ngốc.

Lessing, 88, who won this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, lamented the apparent discrepancy in the hunger for books between developing countries like Zimbabwe and the rest of the world.

Bà Lesssing, người mới đoạt giải Nobel văn học năm nay, đã oán thán về những trái ngược rõ nét trong sự đói sách giữa các nước đang phát triển như Zimbabwe và phần còn lại của thế giới.

In August, Elton John, another creative type for whom the internet has opened up a sea of fresh competition, lambasted the web for stifling creativity, even calling for it to be shut down.

Tháng Tám, Elton John, cũng đã than phiền rằng "internet" bóp nghẹt "sáng tạo", thậm chí đã kêu gọi đóng cửa "internet"

"We are in a fragmenting culture, where our certainties of even a few decades ago are questioned and where it is common for young men and women, who have had years of education, to know nothing of the world, to have read nothing, knowing only some speciality or other, for instance, computers," she said in the speech read out by Lessing's British publisher as she was too ill to travel to Sweden for the Nobel festivities.

She compared her visits to resource-deprived schools in Zimbabwe, where students begged her for books and taught themselves to read using labels on jam jars, to a trip to another school in North London where teachers complained that many students never read books at all and the library was only half used.

Lessing said no one had thought to ask how our lives would be changed by the internet, "which has seduced a whole generation with its inanities so that even quite reasonable people will confess that, once they are hooked, it is hard to cut free, and they may find a whole day has passed in blogging etc".

Similarly, author Andrew Keen argued in his new book, The Cult of the Amateur, that the internet was killing culture and assaulting economics.

"[Anyone] can use their networked computers to publish everything from uninformed political commentary, to unseemly home videos, to embarrassingly amateurish music, to unreadable poems, reviews, essays, and novels," Keen wrote in the book.

But Lessing, who becomes the oldest person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, barely acknowledges the internet's positive side, short of calling it an "amazing invention".

She said little about the opportunity for internet users to freely browse reams of information they may otherwise not have the time or know-how to seek out. She also ignored the fact that blogging has given a voice to millions who would otherwise be writing little or nothing at all.

"In order to write, in order to make literature, there must be a close connection with libraries, books, the tradition," she said.

As people increasingly obtained their information from the internet, a "treasure-house of literature", going back to ancient times, was being ignored, said Lessing.

Lessing, who grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), also used the lecture, titled "On not winning the Nobel Prize" to condemn President Robert Mugabe's "reign of terror" and its effects on literature and budding writers in the country. Her work often draws on her experiences in Africa.

Lessing was described by the Swedish Academy, which has awarded the Nobel Prize since 1901, as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny."

NPE không đồng ý với bà Lesssing và ông Elton John về chuyện internet giết chết trý tuệ và nghệ thuật. Nhưng đễ bửa nào rãnh npe sẽ viết thêm.

Có thể hai vị đó hơi quá lời.
Lão cũng không dám chắc là chuyện ấy có thật hay không? Bởi vì lão chưa có tiến hành điều tra cụ thể.
Nhưng cứ phân tích một cách logic về việc sử dụng thời gian thì thấy rằng bà Lesssing và Elton John không hoàn toàn vô lý.

Trước kia, khi chưa có internet, người ta không phải chat chít vớ vẩn (bởi đa số những cuộc chat chít chiếm hàng giờ lại chẳng có nội dung gì), người ta cũng không phải dành thời gian cho game online... và rất nhiều ứng dụng hấp dẫn khác của internet. Lúc ấy người ta có rất nhiều thời gian để đọc sách, rồi những ai có điều kiện sẽ thường xuyên lưu lại trong phòng thí nghiệm hơn,... có thể vì những nguyên do ấy mà tính sáng tạo trong nghệ thuật, khoa học,... mạnh hơn ngày nay chăng?