Does TV melt your brain? Will surfing the web make you slovenly? Or perhaps the answer is more about how you use it and not an aspect innate to the technology. There has been writing done about how we are loosing the ability to perceive where our brains end and the internet begins, how often have you been having a conversation and referenced information that you've seen before but must google in order to recall. It's just like giving our minds another level of deep storage accessible through our smart phones.
Some may say that allowing our minds to rely on the internet is a crutch that we must teach ourselves to not need, and function without. I remember when I was learning math the teachers would tell the class that calculators were not allowed because, "how often do you carry a calculator around with you?" where now everyone who owns a cell phone does. So in the same vein we are growing to a technological point where all the information accessible through the internet is seamlessly accessible to the individual. This advancement will change the way we think, and has already started to do so.
So lets embrace this growing trend and allow our minds to build systems that encourage "deep storage" where we have to access the web to "remember" something. We will become smarter and more capable thinkers as we use these new tools to the greatest extent possible.
So when Intel starts marketing hardware wetware interfaces I'll be excited.
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Some may say that allowing our minds to rely on the internet is a crutch that we must teach ourselves to not need, and function without. I remember when I was learning math the teachers would tell the class that calculators were not allowed because, "how often do you carry a calculator around with you?" where now everyone who owns a cell phone does. So in the same vein we are growing to a technological point where all the information accessible through the internet is seamlessly accessible to the individual. This advancement will change the way we think, and has already started to do so.
So lets embrace this growing trend and allow our minds to build systems that encourage "deep storage" where we have to access the web to "remember" something. We will become smarter and more capable thinkers as we use these new tools to the greatest extent possible.
So when Intel starts marketing hardware wetware interfaces I'll be excited.
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