“Google and the End of Wisdom” Published at PopMatters
Friday, July 10th, 2009Popular culture Web site PopMatters is publishing “Pixelated Brains,” a four-part series of articles addressing the consequences of technology and new media on thinking.
My article in Pixelated Brains runs today: “Google and the End of Wisdom.”
From the overview:
“Bob Batchelor is convinced that thanks to easy access to online resources, today’s colleges are producing a generation of lazy thinkers. This is more than just an old fashioned, curmudgeonly professor demanding that people crack open a book once in a while - and actually read and comprehend it - it’s a concern that there may be a real cultural decline in critical thinking skills that is enforced, even rewarded, by modern educational institutions.”
