The more dependent we become on technology alone, the more functional technology becomes and the less functional we become. Kinda scary when you think about it.... From Columnist, Esther Cepeda: Google acknowledges that it has even seen a dumbing-down effect among the general public as it has made its search engine more responsive and solicitous, better able to predict what people are looking for,” Carr writes. He then cites an interview in the London Observer, in which Singhal said Google has not enabled people to become better searchers. “Actually, it works the other way,” said Singhal. “The more accurate the machine gets, the lazier the questions become.’” “The Glass Cage” is not an anti-technology book by any means, but it does pose big, difficult questions. For me, the biggest is: How do we keep technological tools that are meant to save the time and effort of recalling facts and knowledge from instilling ignorance in young people who have yet to truly attain a basis of knowledge? Read more: host.madison/news/opinion/column/guest/esther-cepeda-is-technology-making-us-ignorant/article_4c250220-3a67-5e6c-a998-51220d099d74.html#ixzz3HwZHVafR
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 20:08:21 +0000
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