The Internet and You

[wilshire]

I do not think that (ISS) will become a huge problem because of the fact that Dave stated before that if that surgeon has to stop halfway through that your faith in that surgeon is going to drop dramaticly. The fact is we will still have to retain the knowledge and learn it the same way we always have. You are still going to have to learn the information. The internet may make it tempting to just look up the information and just quickly forget it but you will have serious problems down the road when you were supposed to already have learned it and retained it so that you can call upon it instantly without having to go to a computer to look it up on google. When you go into Mechanical engineering and decide that knowing you really don't need to learn which elements have certain lattice structures and how those lattice structures your not going to be allowed to look it up during the exam. The internet i feel is a great medium to communicate with many people and to share information, but it will never replace a good found knowledge that you can retain for the rest of your life.
Just my 2 cents