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jfz9580m

(15,589 posts)
15. Agreed
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 06:24 AM
Nov 2024

I wish I knew more about these topics myself.

I am part of the Google generation myself but I don’t actually think that is a good thing. I subscribe to Nicholas Carr’s views on how having no memory is making us stupid:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_Google_Making_Us_Stupid%3F

Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains! (alternatively Is Google Making Us Stoopid?) is a magazine article by technology writer Nicholas G. Carr, and is highly critical of the Internet's effect on cognition. It was published in the July/August 2008 edition of The Atlantic magazine as a six-page cover story.[1] Carr's main argument is that the Internet might have detrimental effects on cognition that diminish the capacity for concentration and contemplation. Despite the title, the article is not specifically targeted at Google, but more at the cognitive impact of the Internet and World Wide Web.[2][3] Carr expanded his argument in The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, a book published by W. W. Norton in June 2010.


I am myself not that much better except I pass the lowest level of the Dunning Kruger thing and am quite genuinely aware of how shallow a lot of my knowledge is. A moron with a PhD is how I often feel. And that isn’t imposter syndrome. It is the reality that education is suffering due to constant undermining.

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I always hate the generational wars. JI7 Nov 2024 #1
The states, too Cirsium Nov 2024 #2
Nope, not true Blue_Roses Nov 2024 #3
You missed the point Cirsium Nov 2024 #33
I hate the generational wars too. But.... LisaM Nov 2024 #4
This jfz9580m Nov 2024 #14
Thank you. I appreciate it. LisaM Nov 2024 #17
Thank you jfz9580m Nov 2024 #18
Of course Ray-gun was a stooge Wicked Blue Nov 2024 #56
I am beginning to suspect Sympthsical Nov 2024 #46
Or as evil. I like Taylor Swift. LisaM Nov 2024 #47
Screw that label. Tfg is a boomer. multigraincracker Nov 2024 #5
Try again. He has one vote. valleyrogue Nov 2024 #24
My point is about the failure of labels. multigraincracker Nov 2024 #25
That's good, I've always said I'm not white, I'm pink Walleye Nov 2024 #26
There is no Black and White. There is only gray. multigraincracker Nov 2024 #28
I do think Elon Musk uses white make up Walleye Nov 2024 #30
he DOES look like that / hahaha... Ysabel Nov 2024 #44
Really I don't know why the majority of right wing men have to be so damn ugly, are the two things related? Walleye Nov 2024 #49
Barely. LisaM Nov 2024 #48
Every generation owns this one.... BigDemVoter Nov 2024 #6
We were not responsible for Reagan. valleyrogue Nov 2024 #23
No we weren't. BigDemVoter Nov 2024 #64
When people who were too young or not alive trying to tell a falsehood valleyrogue Nov 2024 #65
Boomers have always been blamed Cirsium Nov 2024 #36
Actually, only the very oldest of the baby boom generation were even involved in the protest movements. valleyrogue Nov 2024 #66
That is true Cirsium Nov 2024 #67
It's Weird how the younger people went for Cha Nov 2024 #7
A bunch of young white males feeling under-appreciated, I guess. LisaL Nov 2024 #31
Little do they know.. Their Grandparents & Soon Cha Nov 2024 #58
Especially when the old folks have nowhere to go but to move in with them. LakeArenal Nov 2024 #60
Exactly.. The future does not look bright. Cha Nov 2024 #61
They are furious that President Biden didn't get college loans paid for everyone. jimfields33 Nov 2024 #54
I am always amazed moniss Nov 2024 #8
It's been part of the Reich Wing plan for DECADES... AZ8theist Nov 2024 #9
That's an excellent point, and kids are also losing critical thinking skills. LisaM Nov 2024 #11
Excellent analysis and yes it is noticeable moniss Nov 2024 #13
Ha, re the History Channel...when it first started, they covered more history. LisaM Nov 2024 #19
Agreed jfz9580m Nov 2024 #15
I believe that ciivics belongs in high school. praxEs Nov 2024 #50
The Far Right has long targeted education, standard for autocrats. Reagan & Co appalachiablue Nov 2024 #12
I've noticed that, too. SADAR Nov 2024 #21
Yes indeed I remember the March of Dimes moniss Nov 2024 #22
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Yes, their elders failed to educate them. Mariana Nov 2024 #37
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when voteragain Nov 2024 #16
Boomers may be the only group that knew (and paid mind) to both their own and their parent's history hlthe2b Nov 2024 #20
Young went with Harris............. Lovie777 Nov 2024 #27
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they targeted young voters 4 suppression. long lines at colleges, id wars, mopinko Nov 2024 #35
Not bashing Cirsium Nov 2024 #40
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Why is anybody surprised that we boomers came through. praxEs Nov 2024 #42
It's surprising because the majority of Boomers voted for Trump in 2016 and in 2020. Mariana Nov 2024 #57
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