Is Google Making Us Stupid?
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Uploaded by hardlynewsblog on Sep 7, 2010
In his book, "The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains," author Nicholas Carr looks through the lens of neuroscience at how the Internet shapes our brains. Online, our reading habits change, he says. "Power-browsing" and scanning are essential skills in the sea of content. Our synapses associated with short-term memory fire rapidly and strengthen as we become adept multi-taskers, but with it goes our ability for deep contemplation.
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Your lack of eye-contact is disturbing...
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I actually have an assignment to read his book at my college, but I'm watching the video instead..
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George Romero wasn't far off the mark.
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lmao trying to watch this but i keep getting on facebook and tuning it out, reality check haha well im in school 8 hours a day i guess i use my mind enough
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@mark95427 I guess you missed the point. People that watch TV 24/7 don't read books. TV didn't do it. They watch TV because they are unwilling to do other stuff from the start. Not the other way around.
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Right right.... so using the internet and watching t.v. indirectly affects your brain;
it makes you unwilling to learn and read books.
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@mark95427 "studies" that indicate that people that sit in front of their TV all day are less healthy than people who do not prove what exactly? You're making the mistake of taking a correlation and turn it into a cause-effect relation. The thing is, you can watch a heavy scientific documentary on TV or you can what some retarded soap opera. The second would be connected to Alzheimer and the first would avoid it. It's not the TVs fault. Those people who watch TV 24/7 wouldn't read a book anyway.
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I can't believe I paused this video 3 times to check my e mail account and my pirateBay downloads.
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ZOMGitsDouchebag 1 year ago 12
Is google making us stupid?
Idk, let me google it up..
brb
luciferiexcelsil 1 year ago 10