Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Is google making us stupid?!?!?!

The question at hand is whether a type of artificial intelligence is making us stupid? Just thinking about he question makes me think how can a type of intelligence make us stupid. The search engine Google allows you to search for information in the blink of an eye, and makes it so simple for you to find anything you are looking for or want to know. The only problem at hand is that when you use google it doesn't give you the full amount of work published only the particular part that you want. This in most cases only allows you to skim the surface of the topic instead of immersing yourself fully into the complete aspect of the topic. Also just having that type of accessibility to any form of information can allow your mind to wondering and veer away from what you are really trying to accomplish or finish. I believe that the question that should be asked here is do people have the ability to research the more into a topic that interest that or why does a person not have the ability to stay focused on the task at hand.
What must be taken into account when thinking of this topic is what is making you not focus on what you are doing or why do you lose interest in a certain topic and begin to do something totally unrelated to what you were doing at that time. In my opinion i believe that the technology is great and allows you to do and find out whatever makes you happy or interests you. When a person is really interested in what they are doing they focus on that particular objective and complete it without interruption because it is something they want to do and not something they are forced to do.
When being forced to do something it is like pulling teeth, it is a difficult process because no one wants to be made to do something that is not something they are involved in or find to be interesting. When the world uses google for something they want or something they are interested in they use it to find everything out bout that topic or item and just don't skim but immerse themselves fully into the topic. Google does not make us stupid the fact that we do not have the self control to stay dedicated to the work at hand and make excuses for why we didn't do something or what is causing us to deteriorating the persons ability to stay focused. The blame should not be thrown at google but put on the people itself for becoming as the article says STUPID.