Is Google Making Us Stupid?

[PatColo]

I can surely say this article resonates, I seldom read books anymore, just amazon reviews of books!

Is Google Making Us Stupid? (http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/)

the irony is, how LONG that article is. After the first several paragraphs, I found myself skimming it! Jump to the last paragraph, might be true what he says about movie "2001 A Space Odyssey" and the points about HAL, & AI.

also see,

Do we not read as much anymore because the Internet has sapped our attention spans? (http://www.teleread.org/2010/02/11/do-we-not-read-as-much-anymore-because-the-internet-has-sapped-our-attention-spans/)

^^ much more manageable length.

[Ponce]

Yep...........they want to create a new house with only 10 bricks when it really takes 10,000 of them.

Remember the story of the tree piggy's?.........get ready to be blown away.

[cigarlover]

You have any photos of those tree piggies? :):) Just kidding..

Actually I think goog has helped me find lots of info fast.. I like that about it. Although I may not pick up a book as much anymore I probably do a lot more reading on the net overall than I would have otherwise done without the net. Not all attributed to goog but the net in general has provided lots of good info fast.

[Ponce]

I am guilty also of reading less "real" books, here I can read what I want, watch the newest movies and series..........haven't turn on my TV in the last two months.

I think that the above is a picture of the future.........like newspapers where many of them are now gone.

About the future...........we will be paying a lot more for what we see here on the internet...........and it will be controlled.

[Neuro]

I think it is too late for Google to make people stupid... TV, schools and prescription drugs did that a long long time ago...