I apologize to any professors who may be upset with me comparing them to House. That doesn’t mean that it isn’t true, and really I could have picked The Jersey Shore.
There is almost no difference in importance between the latest episode of House and that last lecture you attended at the University.
Human beings are creatures of analogy, we learn by comparing new information with frameworks we have developed from previous bits of information.
That is why the power on the web and elsewhere is not in the ability to convey information efficiently. Efficiency is for computers and style guides. The power is in being able to package information into analogies, to paint something interesting with your words and videos.
This is one of the reason you’ll have a lot easier time remembering that last episode of House than you will the lecture. TV producers make no qualms about the fact that what they do must be entertaining.
