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Intelligence in the Internet Age

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the he-wants-us-to-think-for-ourselves dept.

ErikPeterson writes to tell us about an article on News.com that takes a look at technology versus intelligence of the general population. From the article: 'Is technology making us smarter? Or are we lazily reliant on computers, and, well, dumber than we used to be?'

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  1. Re:Average intelligence is a constant by absolutspl · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Civilization advances by extending the number of operations which we can perform without thinking about them." - Alfred North Whitehead good ole' google.com

  2. Re:Average intelligence is a constant by RealAlaskan · · Score: 4, Informative
    A quick search didn't turn up anything concrete, but I was probably looking in the wrong places.

    Does that tell us something about your intelligence in the internet age?

    Seriously (didn't want to be mean, but couldn't help myself), were you maybe thinking of Alfred Whitehead, who said:

    Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
    --
    See what I've been reading.
  3. Look it up by nucal · · Score: 3, Informative
    Never memorize anything you can look up. Einstein, Albert

    which you can look up here