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How The Damn Google Spoiled My Career
- daeken 15y agoThis says a lot more about the author than it does Google. Knowing where to go to quickly find information is a good thing; not being able to learn anything because "it's on Google" is not. The point is to choose what to learn and what not to learn; choosing not to learn anything, or being unable to learn anything, is simply not acceptable. The author has ruined his own career, not Google.
- ChuckMcM 15y agoI would agree with that. If they find they are losing the ability to recognize numbers I would consult a neurologist. It is entirely possible to have a 'micro stroke' which does strange non-obvious damage to your brain. Keep your blood pressure down, get enough sleep, etc etc.
- Turing_Machine 15y ago"This discovery of yours [writing] will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves." -- Socrates, ca. 360 BC
- teilo 15y agoIt is true that when most knowledge was passed down orally, human memories were much better. From this, however, it does not follow that writing stunted our ability to learn. Quite the opposite. Writing allowed us access to vastly more knowledge than we could ever memorize, and each successive advance in the recording and propagation of knowledge led to greater and more widely accessible achievements for all of society. From the scribes to the printing press, and on into the digital age, the advancement of the human race has been directly tied to humankind's ability to store, copy, and recall ever greater amounts of information. So I call hogwash.