Is Google Making Us Stupid?

The article "Is Google Making Us Stupid" was very interesting to read. It really got me thinking about how the Internet is basically giving people ADD. When ever I'm using any kind of technology I'm always used to having an "Undo" button. I'm used to fixing things that I messed up in an instant and when I can't it really hits me how spoiled technology has made me.

Also, since everything is online it makes books less of a priority and it makes browsing, rather than reading, the thing to do. I liked, "we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice" because if anything you would think people are reading less these days. Although it does state that what we read is different and how we read is different, but none the less I would think we read less.

Another point I liked about this article was, "In deciding when to eat, to work, to sleep, to rise, we stopped listening to our senses and started obeying the clock." When I thought about this statement, I totally agreed with it. If no one told us when "dinner time" was maybe people would just eat when they were hungry instead of making it a requirement . I think life would be less stressful without a clock. I once saw a documentary about this tribe that was not introduced to anything modern. They had no clock, and no time. They just lived. Without time there is no word "late." Which I think would make people less on edge.