Post by gracefons on Aug 9, 2011 15:39:40 GMT -5
AI, iRobot, Star Wars, Star Trek, and as mentioned in the article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?", 2001: A Space Odyssey are all somewhat current movies that represent artificial intelligence. We, as humans, are constantly trying to come up with the latest items in technology. We want to improve everything to a point where it will be hard for one item to become any better than it already is. In 1970, Sony came out with one of the first portable music players, a Walkman. The Sony Walkman allowed an individual to put any tape they wanted inside the Walkman and, with their own set of headphones, listen to music whereever the individual so pleased. We then were still trying to improve our portability and intelligence and in the early 1980's, Sony produced the Discman. Much like a Walkman except for instead of tapes, one would have their music on a compact disc and insert it into a portable disc player and listen to their music that way. However, this still wasn't advanced enough for us. In 2001, Apple released the first iPod, a non-color, heavy, almost brick-like portable player that allowed you to download your music from the internet and sync it to the iPod to listen freely. Today, we have iPod touches, nanos, shuffles, computers, laptops, and most popular, phones. We are never ceasing to come out with the newest and best things. Even rumored in current events today is the introduction of the latest iPhone 5.
It is probably safe to say that Google, along with Facebook and Twitter, is one of the most popular and visited websites on the Web. Personally, I can say that an assignment given to me hardly gets completed without the help of Google. Before Google, the well known search engine might have been Ask.com (which was once formerly askjeeves.com). But even Ask.com never got to where Google is today on a marketing level, academic level, usage level, and worldwide level. If someone doesn't know something they're supposed to and they want to figure it out, there's a heavy chance that they're going to go to Google to figure it out.
I disagree with the headline "Is Google Making Us Stupider?" because, if anything, we learn from Google. There's a famous saying, "You learn something new every day." I always used to over look this saying because I thought it was overrated and elementary. But I was wrong. I don't think of it as a saying now but more of a fact. It is in our nature to constantly learn new things and store them. If we pick up a magazine and read a headline, we're going to remember that headline. We're taking in things daily whenever we see them. Therefore, if an individual goes to Google and types something in to learn more about it, chances are it's going to happen because he or she will read it. Even if they didn't get what they wanted from it, they will have learned something just by the random links that pop up from their search. Google may not be making us smarter, but it's definitely not making us stupider.
It is probably safe to say that Google, along with Facebook and Twitter, is one of the most popular and visited websites on the Web. Personally, I can say that an assignment given to me hardly gets completed without the help of Google. Before Google, the well known search engine might have been Ask.com (which was once formerly askjeeves.com). But even Ask.com never got to where Google is today on a marketing level, academic level, usage level, and worldwide level. If someone doesn't know something they're supposed to and they want to figure it out, there's a heavy chance that they're going to go to Google to figure it out.
I disagree with the headline "Is Google Making Us Stupider?" because, if anything, we learn from Google. There's a famous saying, "You learn something new every day." I always used to over look this saying because I thought it was overrated and elementary. But I was wrong. I don't think of it as a saying now but more of a fact. It is in our nature to constantly learn new things and store them. If we pick up a magazine and read a headline, we're going to remember that headline. We're taking in things daily whenever we see them. Therefore, if an individual goes to Google and types something in to learn more about it, chances are it's going to happen because he or she will read it. Even if they didn't get what they wanted from it, they will have learned something just by the random links that pop up from their search. Google may not be making us smarter, but it's definitely not making us stupider.