Is the Internet Making Us Dumber? - 0 views
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samaraad on 23 Mar 14Has the Internet made us dumber and simply become an external storage device for our brains? Larry Greenemeir, writing in a Scientific American article, speculates that "with Google, Internet Movie Database and Wikipedia at beck and call via smartphones, tablets and laptops, the once essential function of committing facts to memory has become little more than a flashback to flashcards."