Does Technology Actualy Make Us Stupid?

[Dudesome]

Human mind can label anything. We also like to polorize and idolize.
Good/bad
Useful/detrimental
right/wrong


in nature a rabbit will not be thinking about how "evil" the wolf is. It will just get the fuck out of there and forget all about that wolf once it's out of rabbit's zone.

A rabbit also wont be thinking about how good the carrot is for the eyes. It'll just eat it and enjoy the taste.

It's all dependent on individual's approach to the object. Not on the object.



Im enjoying the technology for example. Sometimes I use it for good. Sometimes it helps me tremendously. But sometimes I just tend to waste my time infront of a computer.

If I was to plot a graph and see upswings and downswings of a lifeprogress using technologies, I would notice a great uptrend in my life. There were ups, there were downs. There were useful things I did, and there were the detrimental ones. Overall Im pretty up though.

For everyone it's different however.

 

[paladin420]

It may not make us stupid..but it sure does highlight it

 

[mrcreosote]

Brilliant

 

[sso]

The point is, remove google, and everyone is an idiot

well, we still have libraries and i do believe, that we actually have less idiots because of the internet, the library was never that popular (i should know, i was a regular)
What about the people who think this of you as well?thats just fine They wont be coming over any time soon haha.in many cases i consider that a blessing Basically it removes human contact and adds to desensitization,i do remember school, people in general suck, whats your point? phone and email are awesome don't get me wrong, but when they are our main source of communication we are fucked if they ever fall through or we don't have access to them, so many socially awkward now because of this, they are never pushed into human contact and they never get used to it.
for a large percent, this is a blessing in disguise (for the geeks and the freaks and whatnot..)

This is true, however some might say that if your always going online to learn, you might forget how to learn naturally haha.

like i said, I do learn faster
Yes, people who use tech to their advantage will say these are better times, but what about the people who would have become intelligent with the old system of books, and in this new system they cannot adapt for some reason? All this tech gets in the way and for newly growing people might be an issue
hehehe, well we still have libraries.

not that that many did use them, before the internet.

and im forced to say, sorry but evolution is sucky.

survive or die?

lol but, i find it bit of an odd argument, that "yes lets get back to the stone age, that should help smarten up our society

"information at the snap of a fingertip is too much! lets get back to kuneiform!"

And yeah, I agree it sucks how lame the world is right now.

well, actually it sucks less than ever before

and not just because of the technology.

sure, people are sucky crap in general.

but, they used to be a malignant, steaming pile of puky bile and shit read history, its all there.

you should be glad we live now.

this is the best time to exist out of all our history (least likely time to get skinned alive for being slightly different (now we just force them to live on the edge of society (unless they are interesting different, then they get a golden cage )

 

[Storm Shadow]

People are becoming more stupid .... Media owns America.... Social Engineering at its finest...its alot easier to herd the sheeple when all they do is watch TV and want to be like all there favorite losers on the screen...

Edison...Ben Franklin..... Ford.... Wright Brothers... i mean these guys instead of playing video games or watching TV all day....they'd be reading books and educating themselves .... being creative and help change the world for a better place.... we dont have that anymore...the young great mind of tommarow are too pre occupied playing Xbox and playing on social media..

Shit we have a lack of Astronauts in this country...nobody wants to step up anymore and try working hard.... skinny jeans...Justin Bieber...Kardashians...and str8 bullshit is all people learn about via technology these days.....

Hence the reason America's population as awhole continues to fall and slip to every other 3rd world nation on earth...all kids here feel entitled and have zero recognition of hard word/dedication....

 

[lost in a sea]

edison was a bastard,,, stole almost everything he gets credit for,,, i know what you mean though man, well said,,,

technology does seem to speed life up and dumb people down,, fucks up their priorities as well,,,

 

[trichrider]

tech has allowed me to skip to the end of the thread and display my ignorance.

 

[In~Plain~Site]

You're born with the quotient you'll have for your entire life, so no, dumb people will remain dumb.

Technology just makes smart folks more efficient.

 

[COOKIE MONSTER]

Well considering how I came home today and tried to use the central locking keyring thingy for the van to open the front door, I'd safely say technology has made me stupid.