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Search engines’ function of providing us with information almost instantly means people are losing their intellectual capacity to store information, Nicolas Carr, said...[he]claimed that the web was depriving our mental faculties of the regular workouts they need.
He told the BBC that the internet meant people now found it harder to concentrate, for example when trying to read a book.
Search engines’ function of providing us with information almost instantly means people are losing their intellectual capacity to store information
Search engines’ function of providing us with information almost instantly means people are losing their intellectual capacity to store information
Originally posted by coder
In fact, a lot of the stuff my kids learn in school is useless at this point because when they need that information that can simply Google it.