Post by katieblock on Aug 3, 2011 14:36:01 GMT -5
I agreed and disagreed with multiple aspects of "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" in many ways. As I first began to read this article I thought it was dumb (sorry for my choice of wording Mrs. Dickison…you told us to be honest!) and I feel as humans we are just adapting to our technological advances. We can’t continue to never use Google or online research because our world is changing. From talk of mouth, to actual print, to online, none of it can be avoided.
As I started getting into the article I changed my opinion of the dumb aspect of it, but I still felt we’re just humans adapting. I've been on this Earth fifteen years, five of which I couldn't read, and five of which I didn't know how to work a computer, that leaves five years of dedication to Dell and Toshiba. I remember first discovering Google as a child; it was amazing. Everything I needed was right there on our home computer in the living room. What was the point of going to the library to find out information? But as I've grown older I don't believe this motto anymore. I'd much rather spend long nights in a library than sitting in a hard kitchen chair. The truth though is that I don't have time to spend hours in a library, which is such a cliché statement, but it honestly and truly is the truth. Sometimes, I have multiple papers due on the same day and as a dedicated procrastinator...Google helps. Google isn’t thinking for me. I’m thinking for me and Google is just supplying me with information. In the printing press paragraph of this article I became furious as I was reading it. Why would the printing press bring intellectual laziness? Why wouldn’t it spark intellectual intensity?!
"Is Google Making Us Stupid?" made me realize something I'd never noticed before: I have become an article skimmer. I don't sit and absorb myself in articles anymore; I just skim them which is exactly like Bruce Friedman in this article. If I never had begun reading articles online then maybe I'd still continue to read full articles out of newspapers and magazines, but do I really know this? Maybe as we just become older we gain this thinking of if I skim this article instead of reading it I save time and still understand what the article is pointing out. So as I stated in my first paragraph, are we just humans adapting to our technological advances? I’m not so sure anymore. As I write this article response my opinion is constantly changing and after reading it multiple times, I’m still not sure what I believe.
So I guess the point (after ranting for three paragraphs) that I’m trying to bring out is: Is artificial intelligence really happening or are we just adapting to the changes around us? For this question, I don’t have the answer. I honestly don’t know how I feel about the statement if the intelligence we have gained is our intelligence or our artificial intelligence. I suppose I’ll continue to battle with this question for a while. Maybe the rest of my life, and maybe I’ll end up just Googling it.
As I started getting into the article I changed my opinion of the dumb aspect of it, but I still felt we’re just humans adapting. I've been on this Earth fifteen years, five of which I couldn't read, and five of which I didn't know how to work a computer, that leaves five years of dedication to Dell and Toshiba. I remember first discovering Google as a child; it was amazing. Everything I needed was right there on our home computer in the living room. What was the point of going to the library to find out information? But as I've grown older I don't believe this motto anymore. I'd much rather spend long nights in a library than sitting in a hard kitchen chair. The truth though is that I don't have time to spend hours in a library, which is such a cliché statement, but it honestly and truly is the truth. Sometimes, I have multiple papers due on the same day and as a dedicated procrastinator...Google helps. Google isn’t thinking for me. I’m thinking for me and Google is just supplying me with information. In the printing press paragraph of this article I became furious as I was reading it. Why would the printing press bring intellectual laziness? Why wouldn’t it spark intellectual intensity?!
"Is Google Making Us Stupid?" made me realize something I'd never noticed before: I have become an article skimmer. I don't sit and absorb myself in articles anymore; I just skim them which is exactly like Bruce Friedman in this article. If I never had begun reading articles online then maybe I'd still continue to read full articles out of newspapers and magazines, but do I really know this? Maybe as we just become older we gain this thinking of if I skim this article instead of reading it I save time and still understand what the article is pointing out. So as I stated in my first paragraph, are we just humans adapting to our technological advances? I’m not so sure anymore. As I write this article response my opinion is constantly changing and after reading it multiple times, I’m still not sure what I believe.
So I guess the point (after ranting for three paragraphs) that I’m trying to bring out is: Is artificial intelligence really happening or are we just adapting to the changes around us? For this question, I don’t have the answer. I honestly don’t know how I feel about the statement if the intelligence we have gained is our intelligence or our artificial intelligence. I suppose I’ll continue to battle with this question for a while. Maybe the rest of my life, and maybe I’ll end up just Googling it.