How Google Is Making Us Smarter
Written on February 2, 2009
Discover Magazine has a fantastic article arguing the seemingly unpopular point that the internet is making us smarter.
Results like these, Clark argues, reveal a mind that is constantly seeking to extend itself, to grab on to new tools it has never experienced before and merge with them. Some people may be horrified by how passionately people are taking to their laptops and GPS trackers. But to Clark it would be surprising if we didn’t. We are, in Clark’s words, “natural-born cyborgs.”
Well that’s a relief! Borg, here we come!
The borg aren’t so bad are they? Two words, Jeri Ryan.