Official: The Internet makes you stupid. Or does it? Bill Thompson weighs up “the internet is rewiring our brains” argument.
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Official: The Internet makes you stupid. Or does it? Bill Thompson weighs up “the internet is rewiring our brains” argument.
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I hope England win the Euro Championships 2008 and support 195 days detention without charge or any evidence for passing this law.
yraG
ho hum.
Stupid? No. Less able to digest and recall large amounts of difficult or dense information? Absolutely.
The internet helps us have a broader, but shallower, understanding of the world around us. Want to know the GDP of Belgium? – ok this is rarely the case – no problem, I can find it in about 45 secs on Google. Why would I need to ‘know’ this information when its so readily available?
That said part of me regrets the fact that I now have the attention span and recall of a gnat.
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