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Take my tools away and I'm diminished, less than I would be had I never had the tools. The benefit seems worth the cost though.
What if we were getting dumber when we are off Google, but we were getting loads smarter while we were on Google? That doesn't seem improbable, and in fact seems pretty likely.I'd like to jack in more, but I don't have the where with to do with. So, I just bump along on the bottom, making do with unenhanced intelligence the vast majority of the time.Question is, do you get off Google or stay on all the time?
I think that even if the penalty is that you loose 20 points of your natural IQ when you get off Google AI, most of us will choose to keep the 40 IQ points we gain by jacking in all the time.
At least I would.
The web is a great tool, but Googling alone won't make you a better dancer, chef, or engineer. Every semester I explain to my students that they aren't expert enough to survive the rigors of a open-book test: all the answers are NOT in the book, and searching furiously seldom helps define a problem or solve it. That takes years of practice. Googling gives us lots of "monkey see," but what the world needs is a lot more "monkey do."
Posted by: mike anderson at June 12, 2008 02:49 AM