In a ponderable counterpoint to Nicholas Carr’s controversial “Is Google Making Us Stoopid” article, Discover Magazine claims that Google, and other tools (digital and otherwise) are actually making us smarter. The essence of their argument is that humans are made to use tools to extend the reach and abilities of their brains beyond the factory-installed hardware inside our heads, thus making us more intelligent.
Discover reports:
We tend to think of the mind as separated from the world; we imagine information trickling into our senses and reaching our isolated minds, which then turn that information into a detailed picture of reality. The [...]
January 21, 2009
Our Tools May Make Us Smarter
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