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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0With today\u2019s ability to access all the information that we could ever use, we have run into the predicament of not needing to know anything. At the click of a button, we can have any information that we need, so this has led some people to believe that the internet is making us stupid. It\u2019s not a stretch to say that the ability to retain information is related to how intelligent people believe that we are. However, that doesn\u2019t really show how intelligent we actually are. This brings up the question of \u201cwhat is intelligence?\u201d. Is intelligence just remembering things that we\u2019ve learned, because if that is the case then the internet might be making us dumb?<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0For the most part, I disagree that the internet is making us dumb. I think that we definitely do not have to memorize the same things that we used too, but I don\u2019t think that memorization of facts isn\u2019t the only thing that influences intelligence. In addition to that, we have so much information that we could learn that if someone was interested in a subject they\u2019d be able to learn more about that subject. This subject could be a very small thing that doesn’t really matter and won\u2019t have any effect on their life, but they still know a lot about it. Does that not make them smart, if only in a small way? <\/span><\/p>\n I support Clay Shirky in banning laptops from his classroom. There are a lot of distractions on the internet and while somethings are constructive there are a lot of things that can just be considered useless. In addition to that people might not be paying attention because they think that they could always google it later. <\/span><\/p>\n Whether or not the internet is making us stupid or not, it\u2019s staying. There\u2019s really no point in arguing that the internet is making us stupid because people will only ever have more access to the internet. The future is going to be filled with this kind of information technology, more powerful and bigger. Perhaps people in the future will think, \u201cWe used to be smarter when we had the internet, we didn\u2019t rely on computers embedded in our brain to know things. We\u2019d type out entire sentences in search engines, and search through the first page of Google.\u201d In my eyes, this is just a \u201cback in my day\u201d argument with a little more substance than just blind nostalgia.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0With today\u2019s ability to access all the information that we could ever use, we have run into the predicament of not needing to know anything. At the click of a button, we can have any information that we need, so this has led some people to believe that the internet is making us stupid. … <\/p>\n