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Is Google Making Us Stupid?
mjasay writes "Is Google making us stupid? Following a growing body of research within neuroscience, Carr argues that as we use the Web 'we inevitably begin to take on the qualities of those technologies.' This sounds great: Who wouldn't want to have the 'recall' capacity of Google? But, as Carr writes: 'The Internet promises to have particularly far-reaching effects on cognition. ... The Internet, an immeasurably powerful computing system, is subsuming most of our other intellectual technologies. It's becoming our map and our clock, our printing press and our typewriter, our calculator and our telephone, and our radio and TV. When the Net absorbs a medium, that medium is recreated in the Net's image.' In other words, as we 'go online' in increasing numbers and to an increasing degree, are we losing our ability to think coherently and deeply, preferring instead to process byte-sized information quickly, regurgitate 140-character 'tweets,' and skim thought? Is the concern overblown, or are we becoming the Web that we created?"
The Internet in general will make us sutidp.
Is Slashdot making us stupid? We've lost the ability to come up with new jokes, instead preferring to spread the same old memes about hot grits, Natalie Portman being naked and petrified, welcome our new Google overlords, and saying that In Soviet Russia, YOU make Google stupid.
Oh well, I guess all are brain are belong to Slashdot.
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correct question:
"are google making us stupids? is our childrens learning?"
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
"Is the Internet making us even more stupid?"
Dawkins Revisited: A person is shit's way of making more shit -- Steve Barnett, anthropologist.
> Is Google Making Us Stupid?
I can't answer your question, my internet connection was down all morning.
It's.. People!!!
... electrolytes!
Here's to finally giving Bush his exit strategy in November
Chasing after everything they do.
"better ways of doing things eventually just replace the inferior things" - Linus Torvalds 09-08-07
Thou shall not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
Let me google it and find out.
By the time I got to the end of this story - I forgot what it was about? Can you resubmit it to slashdot - this time smaller so I can search for it easily on google?
let me check.
Are you...Are you some kind of genius?
No, ma'am, I'm just a regular Slashdot reader.
It only makes you more of what you really are.
Sounds like cocaine.
Robin Williams: It intensifies your personality. But what if you're an asshole?
I drank what? -- Socrates
If you Google "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" the first link is to the same article!
tomorrow who's gonna fuss
Hah! I was going to correct it too, but i used actual 'remembering'! Old School FTW!
They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.
Only because i was AFK (checking lawn for kids).
They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.