Is New Technology Making Us Brighter or Dumbing Us Down?
The last decade has seen the amount of technology available to us explode in variety and quality from interactive TV to touch screen panels that whoosh and swish information at the flick of a finger. This technology aims to put more information than ever before in front of eyes to satisfy our insatiable need for yet more knowledge. But are we actually learning from it? Some people like to think they’re more like Albert Einstein who apparently didn’t commit anything to memory, preferring to write everything down and reference it later if necessary. This meant he could use his brain power on working through theories and finding explanations to complex questions rather than remembering stuff that could be easily found if required. Whether this is true or not doesn’t matter, we now seem to expect that every answer we could possibly want is out there somewhere and we can find it with a quick look at Google. But rather than then use our new-found brain power on thinking through stuff and mak
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