Is Google making us dummer?

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Dogs Rule said:
What it is saying, is that instead of remembering content, we now remember how to find it using search engines.

In a way it is true. Search engines have done to knowledge what the calculator has to mental calculation. But in a way we are better off since we can now concentrate more effort on thinking our ideas through rather then on documenting them (while at the same time increasing the level of documentation). Before the internet, how often would people ask for the source of someone's statement?

Anyways, try http://ixquick.com/ . It's a search engine that doesn't log anything about you.

Yaaaaaaah. I don't believe good thinkin' requires a lot of things to think about. We did used to have encyclopedias right next to the dictionary, which was write next to the typewriter. We still have those thing but we also have Crackberries. Ifun and a bunch has-beens.  All these new devices have a built in encyclopedia.  For me I'm trying to figure out how to fix a watch so I can make some money.