Is Google Making Us Stupid? Yes, but... (Score 1)

All intelligence enhancing technologies make us "stupid". Printing decreases the need (and hence the ability) to memorize. Calculators damage our ability to do unaided mathematics. (Although if I never see another table of proportional parts it will be too bloody soon.)And so on. The real question is are we "smarter" with the aid of these crutches than we are without them? Is a literate person with a book better able to recall quantities of information exactly than someone with memory alone? Is a person with a calculator better able to do mathematical calculations than someone with a pencil and paper? Joni Mitchell out it: Something's lost and something's gained by living every day.