Google and the Educational Emergency

Google Robots

“Google versus Humans” was the Techrunch recent post. It is quite intriguing how does Google affects our brains. “Just Because Google Exists Doesn’t Mean You Should Stop Asking People Things.” That’s really the phrase. But taking consideration that almost everything is in Google, they could answer my questions. However, the bigger issue is whether or not we are so dependent on Google that we are dumping ourselves down? The Pope thinks that the Internet is increasing the danger of a “sense of solitude and disorientation” and basically deadening us, calling it an “educational emergency.”

Educational Emergency

 

A large number of young people... establish forms of communication that to do not increase humaneness but instead risk increasing a sense of solitude and disorientation," Benedict told a Vatican conference on culture.

He also said that young people were being "numbed" by the Internet, adding that the technology was creating an "educational emergency -- a challenge that we can and must respond to with creative intelligence."

Google versus Humans

Google has become a verb, and it’s making us all a little “dumber.” We are supposed to actually learn things. Instead, we are relying on Google to tell us the answer without ever knowing how to arrive at that answer ourselves.