Is Google Making Us Stupid? (Atlantic article)

[Ashley Christine]

Well, I will admit that I skimmed through a bit of the article, but didn't have the desire to read it all.

As for the title of this thread "Is google making us stupid" I personally would say it isn't making us "stupid," yet causing us to use our brains in a different manner.

For starters, everything you could possibly want is right at your fingertips. I find it difficult to take the time and memorize things because I could easily go and google the answer. I find myself often google-ing things whether it is to make a coversion, or to verify that something I "thought" was right actually is right.

Who needs to know anything when you can just look it up? Kidding of course. I wish I was better able to memorize things because then it would save the time it takes to bring up google and search around!


I am going to go off onto another topic - but as I have mentioned memorization a few times, it is interesting because when I was younger I had to memorize phone numbers and things of that nature, now I have over 300 phone numbers in my cell phone - if I were to lose my phone, I would be able to call only my mom, dad, my sister and I would MAYBE be able to remember a few other numbers.

I think google and all the other handy tools we have are just making us all a little bit lazy. lol