Artificial Smartner

Digital alarmists are wrong

So Google is not making us stupid, PowerPoint is not destroying literature, and the Internet is not really changing our brains. But they may well be making us think we’re smarter than we really are, and that is a dangerous thing.

This counterpoint to Nicholas Carr’s argument is a compelling one, that technology has somehow made us smarter.

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