The Decade Google Made You Stupid
by Douglas Rushkoff from The Daily Beast 12/13/09 The results are a bit scary. Not only have computers changed the way we think, they’ve also discovered what makes humans think—or think we’re thinking. At least enough to predict and even influence it. Here are the four things cognizant people should know about the decade when computers mastered our cognition. GOOGLE MAKES US STUPID Most of the news about how our brains have been affected by Internet use has been covered in the optimistic shades of Google. As Dr. Gary Small, a neurobiologist at UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience & […]
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