Google is not making you stupid

http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2011/09/20/140625802/google-is-not-making-you-stupid

by mossplix • 15 years ago

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wccrawford• 15 years ago

Oh lookie, a strawman!

The argument isn't that we are doing something new and therefore it's bad. The argument is that the readily available information makes us lazier about remember things, and thus when we aren't at a computer, we're dumber.

And it's probably actually true... It just doesn't matter. Unless we're worried about Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome happening, then we'll have access to computers.

And the stuff we do repeated, even with the help of Google, will be memorized anyhow. Just for efficiency. It's just the least important stuff that gets left to Google to remember.

yanw• 15 years ago

You assume that tools aren't part of human evolution but they certainly are and modem tools are no exception. I assume the cognitive powers used for memorizing trivia will be reallocated to something else, they won't go away.

Google is not making you stupid

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