[Publib] "Is Google making us stupid?"

[Kathleen Stipek]

I don't think that Google is making us any more stupid; of course it
isn't making us any less stupid, either.  Technology takes obnoxious
traits and magnifies them.  There were always loudmouths; the microphone
just brought them to our notice.  There have always been light-minded,
self-aggrandizing twits; the internet allows them to shove themselves
under our noses and pretend that they are on the cutting edge of
technology.  Twitness doesn't change; technology just helps twits to be
more annoying.

 

Kathleen Stipek

Alachua County Library District

401 East University Avenue

Gainesville, Florida 32601

352-334-3931 fax 352-334-3938

 

--Non, merci

Cyrano de Bergerac

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From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Rob Amend
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 12:52 PM
To: Publib
Subject: Re: [Publib] "Is Google making us stupid?"

 

Just as an aside, it seems to me that there has been a shift from
spending time acquiring information to using the information to create.
I have seen our missing attention span hard at work in music production,
video editing, web page design, and fiction writing. Could it be that we
are separating the data storage and retrieval process from the creative
process--moving toward pure creativity?

 -- 
Rob Amend
Devil's Advocate
rob.amend at gmail.com
blog.reftechrob.com <http://blog.reftechrob.com/>  

On 6/14/08, Joe Schallan <jschallan at yahoo.com> wrote: 

	If you care about the relationship of reading to thought, you'll
want to read Nicholas Carr's article, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?," in
the July/August issue of The Atlantic (also available online at
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google ).

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