Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Overall the article makes very clear arguments as to how the technology world is colliding head-on with the intellectual world. I honestly don't think the internet is hindering anyone's mental capabilities. I feel with all this information right in front of you, people tend to become lazy. They find the information they want instantaneously, browsing website after website, not even bothering to read the articles in full. It has everything to do with the fast-paced society that technology has forged and nothing to do with mankind's stupidity, but laziness. Technology, specifically the internet can be both a useful everday tool for quick research, but I feel that it should be used in moderation. I do believe people today are becoming more and more attention deficit. Whether the internet is truly to blame is beyond me. I can make all the speculations I want, but it still holds strong that society moves extraordinarily way too fast. The internet is convenient in many ways and doesn't necessarily cause stupidity, but unintended laziness when when it comes to reading and comprehending.
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I think this is a valid counter-argument, Erik - that we're simply becoming lazier and not dumber - and many have made it.
ReplyDeleteYou're right in that it's very difficult to establish a specific causal link between the way the internet works and the way we tend to work these days, but, as you say, technology has in many ways "forged" this fast-paced society. I think the difference is in how people USE the technology, as you seem to be indicating.