Jun
10

Nicholas Carr Asks: Is Google Making Us Stupid?

Is the way we use search engines and databases changing the way we think? Deep concentration, rich memory being replaced by culling fragments of on-demand data? I think Carr's got a good point. The real danger is the fact that data on demand instead of committed to memory is less available for synthesis… making connections and seeing bigger patterns. A good argument for continuing the tradition of memorization — poetry, Bible verses, foreign languages, history, programming languages! Nicholas Carr writes in Is Google Making Us Stupid?, "As we use what the sociologist Daniel Bell has called our “intellectual technologiesâ€

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