8 Dec
2010
8 Dec
'10
1:28 p.m.
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Watchman <skunkingrahim@gmail.com> wrote:
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What's the internet doing to us?
Open discussion here.
Is it making us a smarter community? more knowledgeable? more intelligent or just more flick information dependent? ...
I'm sure there once was a discussion about "are books dumbing us?" (suggesting that having you own "experiences" is better). And there may come a time when you can simply download "intelligence" straight into your brain. Whether things are getting better is debatable. Maybe we should have stayed in the hunter-gatherer days? Check out this interesting article by one Paul Graham: < http://paulgraham.com/boss.html>. Joseph.