The New Atlantis » Is Stupid Making Us Google? - 0 views
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“as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence.”
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what we are witnessing is not just an educational breakdown but a deformation of the very idea of intelligence.
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Even those who have come to the Web late in life are not so very different, then, from the fifth-graders who, as an elementary school principal told Bauerlein, proceed as follows when they are assigned a research project: “go to Google, type keywords, download three relevant sites, cut and paste passages into a new document, add transitions of their own, print it up, and turn it in.”
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