Title: The Internet can make you smarter, experts say - CNET
Headings: The Internet can make you smarter, experts say
The Internet can make you smarter, experts say
Content: There are still many people, however, who are critics of the impact of Google, Wikipedia, and other online tools." In the summer of 2008, writer Nick Carr wrote a controversial article for The Atlantic entitled "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" Pew Internet asked the same question of its panel of experts. Most disagreed with the premise that browsing and skimming through Web sites is lowering our ability to concentrate. Some said that Google makes us more informed and creative. Others said sites like Google make us intellectually lazy. And for many, the answer was not as simple as the question. "Google will make us stupid and intelligent at the same time," wrote Dutch Futurist Marcel Bullinga. " In the future, we will live in a transparent 3D mobile media cloud that surrounds us everywhere. In this cloud, we will use intelligent machines, to whom we delegate both simple and complex tasks.