Thursday, October 30, 2008

Is Google Making us Stupid?

Or Wikipedia?

More importantly is effortless access to information hurting us?

Does my ability to resolve my curiosity instantly, makes me worse off?

The Internet is special, it is special because it allows for the cheap transfer of information.

There is rarely a quality control on this information, some places are better and some just terrible. So now instead of being rewarded for how well we can memorize other people's ideas, we are rewarded for being able to find new information quickly.

Original thought will still be the secret to actual rewards.

More thoughts later.

Will