Is Google making us stupid?

[Kerrmudgeon]

Interesting article on how the internet is changing how we read and absorb facts.......:willy:

http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=13&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CFgQ1ScwDA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fmagazine%2Farchive%2F2008%2F07%2Fis-google-making-us-stupid%2F306868%2F&ei=ctsbVeG1J4ajgwSZwYPoBQ&usg=AFQjCNGgN2PyFWrWqPwaFWlw0qOebTiNrg&sig2=RdkNtqb0P6nR07j6v7iIPw&bvm=bv.89744112,d.eXY

“I now have almost totally lost the ability to read and absorb a longish article on the web or in print,” :(

For me...it's gotten way to easy to look up info (names etc.) that I had to remember in the past. :(

[Sneaks]

Interesting article on how the internet is changing how we read and absorb facts.......:willy:

http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=13&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CFgQ1ScwDA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fmagazine%2Farchive%2F2008%2F07%2Fis-google-making-us-stupid%2F306868%2F&ei=ctsbVeG1J4ajgwSZwYPoBQ&usg=AFQjCNGgN2PyFWrWqPwaFWlw0qOebTiNrg&sig2=RdkNtqb0P6nR07j6v7iIPw&bvm=bv.89744112,d.eXY



For me...it's gotten way to easy to look up info (names etc.) that I had to remember in the past. :(

You're old, it happens. :D

[Kerrmudgeon]

You're old, it happens. :D

:slap:..wrong!...I'm....MIDDLE AGE MAN! :rofl:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT6_uWrWf2CxBb4cidY0TdoXdWLa0CqzvBGajmYAxMwp9uG3bUD

[Sneaks]

:slap:..wrong!...I'm....MIDDLE AGE MAN! :rofl:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT6_uWrWf2CxBb4cidY0TdoXdWLa0CqzvBGajmYAxMwp9uG3bUD

:rofl::rofl:

[96LT4]

I can't get past the asses in your avatar....good lord!!!

[Wathen1955]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bufTna0WArc

[Jeff '79]

I was in the emergency room and doctors and nurses we're Googling whatever they didn't know.
It is damn convenient, that's for sure.

We're one generation and one nuclear blast away from being dumb as stumps again.

[DukeAllen]

I was in the emergency room and doctors and nurses we're Googling whatever they didn't know.
It is damn convenient, that's for sure.

We're one generation and one nuclear blast away from being dumb as stumps again.

Not to worry, our grand children will be taught all about Allah.

[CertInsaneC5]

I watched a TED's clip that touched on this last night. It was hosted by that guy from Jeopardy that won until IBM beat him with a super computer.

One of the comments he made was that a part of our brain was getting smaller by using GPS all the time. So we didn't have to remember the route to go places. It was a dang good 20 minutes or so. And right inline with this thread. :cert:

[Kerrmudgeon]

I watched a TED's clip that touched on this last night. It was hosted by that guy from Jeopardy that won until IBM beat him with a super computer.

One of the comments he made was that a part of our brain was getting smaller by using GPS all the time. So we didn't have to remember the route to go places. It was a dang good 20 minutes or so. And right inline with this thread. :cert:

I find the same with phone numbers. When I was in business and very active I must have had a couple hundred numbers in my brain, never used the phone book. I find when I write stuff down there's no need to remember it, you rely on the book or now....your I-phone.:bilmem:

[Rob]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohcwksrvDOg