Is Technology Making Us Stupid?

EH… Wait, let me Google that…

Haha. But seriously, the first thing anyone I know, including me, does when they want to know something is to Google it. Whatever happened to Dictionaries, the Yellow Pages and a Street Directory?

(By the way, I mean actual, tangible books where you find out information, not dictionary.reference.com and streetdirectory.com)

I’m quite proud to say that I checked an actual dictionary just 2 weeks ago, when I was searching for a simple definition of the word ‘mobile phone’(for a specific lesson, *hint*). However, that was after I searched the Internet and gave up on definitions like this one from Wikipedia:

A mobile phone or mobile (also called cellphone and handphone^[1]) is a long-range, electronic device used for mobile telecommunications (mobile telephony, text messaging or data transmission) over a cellular network of specialized base stationsknown as cell sites.

I mean, who wants to explain that?? So, obviously after trying my very best (which equals Google-ing and looking through the first few hits) , I turned to the old-fashioned way: I searched my house for a actual dictionary and then found this definition:

Mobile Phone:

Sometimes we forget that the smallest things are the simplest.

But it does seem that we still follow the basic principles and steps, judging from this blogpost:

http://technollama.blogspot.com/2009/01/is-technology-making-us-stupid.html

I especially like the ending quote, when they talk about the ways that we never change, even after all this technology has ‘tainted’ us. Haha. It just feels like we’re all still human, and there are some things that will just NEVER CHANGE

So we’re still using our brains and minds, thankfully. We’re not totally used to technology to the point where our roots are forgotten, and the way people write and type change. At most, all the processes seem faster and everything goes into our heads faster, but at least we’re still making an effort to think of key words to type, stuff we deem important to read, etc. Can you imagine if in the future we just have to think something and everything gets thrown at us?

I mean, they’re doing that now, but still, at least we get out of bed. We find a WiFi spot, we go to school, we still use books, we search for stuff we want, etc. If we had a device that just provided us all with all the knowledge we wanted, then what would be the point of education? Plus, then we won’t all be fatso pigs sitting at him (ala the people in Surrogates )

So, I guess my answer to that question is:

Maybe. But it’s not as bad as it could be (Plus, you have a choice on what you want, like Newspapers VS Online News )