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Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Magazine - The Atlantic - Nicholas Carr - 11 views

  • And because they would be able to “receive a quantity of information without proper instruction,” they would “be thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite ignorant.”
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      This is a frightening idea that long ago they were worried that reading books would fill people with knowledge when they weren't knowledgeable. Now we face bigger problems because less people are reading because their focus has shifted to more unimportant issues.
  • Last year, Page told a convention of scientists that Google is “really trying to build artificial intelligence and to do it on a large scale.”
  • “Certainly if you had all the world’s information directly attached to your brain, or an artificial brain that was smarter than your brain, you’d be better off.”

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