Is Google negatively affecting our intelligence?
Google isn’t one of the biggest companies in the world for nothing. It is the forefront of modern technology allowing easy access to anything on the internet with their search engine. But many people still question how Google impacts us on an intellectual level. Sources from Peter Norvig, Genevieve Roberts, and colleges.net explain how Google does not negatively affect our intelligence. Reasons of this are faster and simply better thinking, information is more accessible, and storing information. To start off, Google lets us think better and faster. Access to the internet’s information is just as how a car allows us to move faster or a telescope let us see farther, it lets us think better and faster. To prove this, in the source by Peter Norvig, in paragraph three, “Suppose I’m interested in the guidance computers on Apollo spacecraft in the 1960s. My local library has no books on that specific subject… turn to Google which returns 45,000 pages, including a definitive encyclopedia article and instructions for building a unit.” Google can find specific subjects unlike books in a library, it also consists of many pages, sites, etc. about that subject. Another point,
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Archives
June 2017
Categories |