In this age of instant information at your fingertips, how crazy is it that we don't actually even take the time to read the information? It's not like we don't have the time. I mean, it arrives in an instant. We didn't wait four months or have to travel to get it. Why can't we just focus and take our time now that we have the means to do so?
This modern era is making us try to cram all of our activities into as little time as possible. The idea is, the less time we use, the more time we'll have. But for what? And while we're talking about information in the digital age, just the question that the title of the article, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" speaks to a large and widespread problem that we have today. Why are search engines so prominent in our everyday life? Who played that guy who died on Season Two of the Wire? Google it. Go to IMDB. Whatever you do, don't think. We will soon live in an age where everyone's knowledge is based off of what they see on the Internet.
But let's not make the Internet the sole scapegoat for a growing lack of brain power in society. Films do this to books. How many people have read "The Shawshank Redemption"? No, Morgan Freeman is not one of the characters. We take shortcuts and try to find the quickest way to receive information until it becomes a question of why we're even looking for the information in the first place. By the time we get it, we have already moved onto looking for the next bit, which is ridiculous because we received 100 million Google results in .02 seconds.
Did you read this post or did you skim it? I'll say this again, it's not just Google that's making us stupid : it's us too.
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