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Is the internet making us smarter or dumber?

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  • #52
    Firetrap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,442 ✭✭✭Firetrap


    I don't think it has made us dumber but has changed the way we access information and can fill our brains with all sorts of useless information :eek:


  • #53
    foxinsox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭foxinsox


    scientific1982 wrote: »
    Neither. But everyone should take a step back every once and a while and appreciate just how ****ing amazing the internet is.

    I totally agree with you there...

    and I also think that everyone should step back every once in a while and read a book.. a decent one..:)

    Just thinking about this I think the internet is fantastic but I'd be interested to see statistics of spelling, grammar, knowledge retention as compared to before the internet, as regards education.

    EG:

    When I was in school a long long time ago, if we were given a "project" to do: off we headed to the library to sit in the section where the encylopedias were kept, we read about the subject and write a summary. If we had a picture it was usually an old magazine or newspaper cut out. Only the real rich had their own encylopedias at home :rolleyes:

    Now most kids have their own PC and printer, project done in ten minutes, copy and paste and project worthy of a newspaper, done..


  • #54
    Giselle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭Giselle


    It might not make people dumber, but if the legend is true then the prevelance of porn must be responsible for an epidemic of deafness.:)

    I think its aided me in gaining more general knowlege that tends to have limited usefulness. Its also made looking up things related to both my work and my studies incredibly easy.

    Its indispensible to the point that whether or not its good or bad for my intelligence is irrelevant because I can't do without it.


  • #55
    Cheap Thrills!
    Registered Users Posts: 2,723 ✭✭✭Cheap Thrills!


    Dumbererer

    yeh :pac:


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