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me still smart since yousing teh interwebz
I came up with a long and well thought out reply but since, thanks to the internet, I have the attention span of a fruitfly, it turned into song lyrics.
The HAL 9000 computer was born, or “made operational,” as HAL himself humbly put it, on January 12, 1992, in a mythical computer plant in Urbana, Illinois. I was born almost exactly thirty-three years earlier, in January of 1959, in another midwestern city, Cincinnati, Ohio. My life, like the lives of most Baby Boomers and Generation Xers, has unfolded like a two-act play. It opened with Analogue Youth and then, after a quick but thorough shuffling of the props, it entered Digital Adulthood
The bond between book reader and book writer has always been a tightly symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization. The words of the writer act as a catalyst in the mind of the reader, inspiring new insights, associations, and perceptions, sometimes even epiphanies. And the very existence of the attentive, critical reader provides the spur for the writer’s work. It gives the author the confidence to explore new forms of expression, to blaze difficult and demanding paths of thought, to venture into uncharted and sometimes hazardous territory. “All great men have written proudly, nor cared to explain,” said Emerson. “They knew that the intelligent reader would come at last, and would thank them.” . .
End thread. Internet scares old people, as does anything new.
I dont think its making people lose their reasoning abilities, if anything it encourages people to seek information for themselves instead of relying on older methods of communication.
I don't see how any kid with half a brain can not be an honor roll student thanks to the internet.
But, why are our schools failing so badly? Is the internet making it too easy for them and making them lazy or do they just spend too much time watching viral videos on it?
Also I think it it leads many of the kids into plagiarism .
:allhail
There is a new book out about the internet and how it is ****ing up our brains.
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I think the internet and other modern communication devices are making us lose much of our own reasoning abilities.