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TheTruthNeverLies User ID: 1574021 United States 07/13/2012 01:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Google's Effects on Memory [link to youtu.be] "Do we just get dumber?" Why remember when we can look it up, right? If your a dumb fuck, you dont care about memorizing shit. I google stuff all the time. I go there to learn stuff i didnt know before.. I dont forget what i read. This must pertain to fluoride drinking, dumb, ignorant, and trashy people who cant read to begin with. "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth." "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." "Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society." -George Washington, Father of our country & 1st President |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 19168176 United States 07/13/2012 01:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Google is doing to memory what executives do to businesses. We aren't getting dumber, and we aren't getting smarter. We are simply processing data in a more streamlined way. You look something up, you get the critical information on the subject, and that's what you go off of. The details that you could specialize on the topic with you simply toss out. It's giving people more total topics of knowledge, but less in depth knowledge of that information. It's also stimulating people to fill in those gaps when the topic comes up and you have to refer back in your memory. Not a bad way of doing it, just different. Remove the waste information, retain the good stuff. Just like business, who cares how you did it, why you did, or how long it may or may not take you to do, as long as it gets done. The results driven brain. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 19681229 United States 07/13/2012 01:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Google is doing to memory what executives do to businesses. We aren't getting dumber, and we aren't getting smarter. We are simply processing data in a more streamlined way. You look something up, you get the critical information on the subject, and that's what you go off of. The details that you could specialize on the topic with you simply toss out. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19168176 It's giving people more total topics of knowledge, but less in depth knowledge of that information. It's also stimulating people to fill in those gaps when the topic comes up and you have to refer back in your memory. Not a bad way of doing it, just different. Remove the waste information, retain the good stuff. Just like business, who cares how you did it, why you did, or how long it may or may not take you to do, as long as it gets done. The results driven brain. |
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Anonymous Coward 07/13/2012 01:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Nicholas Carr wrote a pretty good article for The Atlantic back in 2008 that was heavily critcized for promulgating a similar conclusion. You can read article @ [link to www.theatlantic.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 14392840 United States 07/13/2012 01:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Google is doing to memory what executives do to businesses. We aren't getting dumber, and we aren't getting smarter. We are simply processing data in a more streamlined way. You look something up, you get the critical information on the subject, and that's what you go off of. The details that you could specialize on the topic with you simply toss out. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19168176 It's giving people more total topics of knowledge, but less in depth knowledge of that information. It's also stimulating people to fill in those gaps when the topic comes up and you have to refer back in your memory. Not a bad way of doing it, just different. Remove the waste information, retain the good stuff. Just like business, who cares how you did it, why you did, or how long it may or may not take you to do, as long as it gets done. The results driven brain. Its not going to change people We've had libraries with books for decades that were mostly stood empty, except for a few people that wanted to learn on their own. I know cause I was one who frequented libraries. Just the smell of books are coming to me in my memory. I could spend the whole day there, Id check out ten books at a time. No one gives a shit They just care about gossip and shopping and porn Wait , I correct myself Shopping and Porn and movie stars will be used on google but thats it. As for information and learning and expanding ones world, forget about it. People havent changed. People never will. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 8973072 United States 07/13/2012 01:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Google is doing to memory what executives do to businesses. We aren't getting dumber, and we aren't getting smarter. We are simply processing data in a more streamlined way. You look something up, you get the critical information on the subject, and that's what you go off of. The details that you could specialize on the topic with you simply toss out. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19168176 It's giving people more total topics of knowledge, but less in depth knowledge of that information. It's also stimulating people to fill in those gaps when the topic comes up and you have to refer back in your memory. Not a bad way of doing it, just different. Remove the waste information, retain the good stuff. Just like business, who cares how you did it, why you did, or how long it may or may not take you to do, as long as it gets done. The results driven brain. YES INDEED, WELL PUT!!! I see your clappa guy and I raise you one. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 19692087 Canada 07/13/2012 01:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Modern information age tech is just the same shit we always did, it's just better and faster. Each of us comes into the world with NOTHING, and we use whatever resources we have to gain information as we go. We used to have "the elders" and the oral tradition, which was not very good, and then we gained the ability to write, but then we had to comb through volumes physically to get at the information. Then we had the telephone, and we could call an expert to get the information. Now we have Google, and it takes all the same processes and makes them all easier. I don't think it makes us dumber, because we were already dumb...it just takes our ways to access information to a whole new level. Thank God for it too, we have the information available to us now that not too long in the past would have been inconceivable for people, it's really amazing when you stop to think about it. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 14392840 United States 07/13/2012 01:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Google is doing to memory what executives do to businesses. We aren't getting dumber, and we aren't getting smarter. We are simply processing data in a more streamlined way. You look something up, you get the critical information on the subject, and that's what you go off of. The details that you could specialize on the topic with you simply toss out. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19168176 It's giving people more total topics of knowledge, but less in depth knowledge of that information. It's also stimulating people to fill in those gaps when the topic comes up and you have to refer back in your memory. Not a bad way of doing it, just different. Remove the waste information, retain the good stuff. Just like business, who cares how you did it, why you did, or how long it may or may not take you to do, as long as it gets done. The results driven brain. The only data people will process more steamlined is Facebook and Twitter. Give me a break. Theres been proven studies that concentration ability and patience has gone down. When you make it instant gratification it destroys a lot inside a human Ive heard tons of stories of kids that cannot stand being taught how to fish, how to build a shed, how to check an engine or how to take ski lift and learn how to snowboard cause it all takes patience and time and kids dont have those abilities any more. They just prefer pictures and video games to the actual doing. More kids now too prefer a webcam of a woman masturbating over being with a real woman Were screwed and you all dont see it. Watch the Disney movie WALL-E Soon youll just be a blob, a head glued to a screen with a IV attached to you for food. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 19624370 United Kingdom 07/13/2012 02:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't see the difference... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19692087 Modern information age tech is just the same shit we always did, it's just better and faster. Each of us comes into the world with NOTHING, and we use whatever resources we have to gain information as we go. We used to have "the elders" and the oral tradition, which was not very good, and then we gained the ability to write, but then we had to comb through volumes physically to get at the information. Then we had the telephone, and we could call an expert to get the information. Now we have Google, and it takes all the same processes and makes them all easier. I don't think it makes us dumber, because we were already dumb...it just takes our ways to access information to a whole new level. Thank God for it too, we have the information available to us now that not too long in the past would have been inconceivable for people, it's really amazing when you stop to think about it. You are obviously under 30 years old. You are living in the fast lane and you probably belong there. We are all in the "fast lane". The truth is that it's an exponential increase in perception, intelligence, information and experience. For the well informed it's just fun, fast, furious phenomenal enjoyment.. I love it. mmm. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 19624370 United Kingdom 07/13/2012 02:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Google is doing to memory what executives do to businesses. We aren't getting dumber, and we aren't getting smarter. We are simply processing data in a more streamlined way. You look something up, you get the critical information on the subject, and that's what you go off of. The details that you could specialize on the topic with you simply toss out. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19168176 It's giving people more total topics of knowledge, but less in depth knowledge of that information. It's also stimulating people to fill in those gaps when the topic comes up and you have to refer back in your memory. Not a bad way of doing it, just different. Remove the waste information, retain the good stuff. Just like business, who cares how you did it, why you did, or how long it may or may not take you to do, as long as it gets done. The results driven brain. The only data people will process more steamlined is Facebook and Twitter. Give me a break. Theres been proven studies that concentration ability and patience has gone down. When you make it instant gratification it destroys a lot inside a human Ive heard tons of stories of kids that cannot stand being taught how to fish, how to build a shed, how to check an engine or how to take ski lift and learn how to snowboard cause it all takes patience and time and kids dont have those abilities any more. They just prefer pictures and video games to the actual doing. More kids now too prefer a webcam of a woman masturbating over being with a real woman Were screwed and you all dont see it. Yes. and they are just children. I/we are adults and can recocgnise the use it provides to inform us how to make fire from wood and chop stick to make snare to catch dinner and find lady to love! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1148772 United States 07/13/2012 02:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I agree and disagree. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19119040 If you just look something up, your brain isn't going to remember whatever it is you looked up unless you were either really interested in the question you were asking, or unless you do some further research. You're still gonna file things away in your memory no matter what the circumstance. The problem lies in retrieval. Right now I'm trying to hunt down a youtube video that I found a couple years ago that uses clips from "Sniper" with Tom Berenger... along with the song "Sympathy for the Devil..." and do you think I can find the damn thing??? Hell no. HELP!!! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 18852579 United States 07/13/2012 02:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | “Never memorize something that you can look up.” ― Albert Einstein i suppose it could be possible that by storing fewer memories one would have more capacity to think/rationalize/be creative. the danger is when we are all reliant on data stored in the cloud, the owners of that cloud can remove information on a whim. they could change it too. history could be censored and rewritten and you'd have no way of proving it. i would choose an eidetic memory any day over a neural-google link. |
Illuminatvs Primvs User ID: 14283986 United States 07/13/2012 02:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Google is doing to memory what executives do to businesses. We aren't getting dumber, and we aren't getting smarter. We are simply processing data in a more streamlined way. You look something up, you get the critical information on the subject, and that's what you go off of. The details that you could specialize on the topic with you simply toss out. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19168176 It's giving people more total topics of knowledge, but less in depth knowledge of that information. It's also stimulating people to fill in those gaps when the topic comes up and you have to refer back in your memory. Not a bad way of doing it, just different. Remove the waste information, retain the good stuff. Just like business, who cares how you did it, why you did, or how long it may or may not take you to do, as long as it gets done. The results driven brain. Its not going to change people We've had libraries with books for decades that were mostly stood empty, except for a few people that wanted to learn on their own. I know cause I was one who frequented libraries. Just the smell of books are coming to me in my memory. I could spend the whole day there, Id check out ten books at a time. No one gives a shit They just care about gossip and shopping and porn Wait , I correct myself Shopping and Porn and movie stars will be used on google but thats it. As for information and learning and expanding ones world, forget about it. People havent changed. People never will. "13013" |
Anubis User ID: 4949345 Canada 07/13/2012 02:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Google is doing to memory what executives do to businesses. We aren't getting dumber, and we aren't getting smarter. We are simply processing data in a more streamlined way. You look something up, you get the critical information on the subject, and that's what you go off of. The details that you could specialize on the topic with you simply toss out. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19168176 It's giving people more total topics of knowledge, but less in depth knowledge of that information. It's also stimulating people to fill in those gaps when the topic comes up and you have to refer back in your memory. Not a bad way of doing it, just different. Remove the waste information, retain the good stuff. Just like business, who cares how you did it, why you did, or how long it may or may not take you to do, as long as it gets done. The results driven brain. Its not going to change people We've had libraries with books for decades that were mostly stood empty, except for a few people that wanted to learn on their own. I know cause I was one who frequented libraries. Just the smell of books are coming to me in my memory. I could spend the whole day there, Id check out ten books at a time. No one gives a shit They just care about gossip and shopping and porn Wait , I correct myself Shopping and Porn and movie stars will be used on google but thats it. As for information and learning and expanding ones world, forget about it. People havent changed. People never will. i love libraries. always have. i will miss them when they are gone. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 4953860 Canada 07/13/2012 02:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i think google make people more ressourced than before because before we need to goto bookstore to read it and we dont have always time to go for it ... now under 5 minutes you have the answer in fact in 1 month i learn more than what i learn in 2 years of school ! ps: sorry if my english is not perfect i learn it on google |
Isis7 (OP) User ID: 19498336 United States 07/13/2012 02:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i think google make people more ressourced than before Quoting: Anonymous Coward 4953860 because before we need to goto bookstore to read it and we dont have always time to go for it ... now under 5 minutes you have the answer in fact in 1 month i learn more than what i learn in 2 years of school ! ps: sorry if my english is not perfect i learn it on google |
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Isis7 (OP) User ID: 19498336 United States 07/13/2012 02:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | How Recent Solar Flares Are Affecting Humans Exactly what is a solar flare and how does it affect us? There appears to be a direct connection between the Sun’s solar storms and human biological effect especially after an "M" class solar flare. The conduit which facilitates the charged particles from the Sun to human disturbance is the very same conduit which steers Earth’s weather through the Magnetic Field on Earth, and also through the magnetic fields around humans. Geomagnetic Activity on the Sun Influences our Thoughts [link to www.carliniinstitute.com] So, what to do?? The Sun can take out the communication satellites on which Google works, and affect us on a personal level as well. Published on Jul 13, 2012 by NASAexplorer An X1.4 class flare erupted from the center of the sun, peaking on July 12, 2012 at 12:52 PM EDT. It erupted from Active Region 1520 which rotated into view on July 6. This video uses SDO AIA footage in 131(teal), 171(gold) and 335 (blue) angstrom wavelengths. Each wavelength shows different temperature plasma in the sun's atmosphere. 171 shows 600,000 Kelvin plasma, 335 shows 2.5 million Kelvin plasma, and 131 shows 10 million Kelvin plasma. The final shot is a composite of 171 and 335 angstrom footage. |
Isis7 (OP) User ID: 19498336 United States 07/13/2012 03:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I agree and disagree. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19119040 If you just look something up, your brain isn't going to remember whatever it is you looked up unless you were either really interested in the question you were asking, or unless you do some further research. hmm, guess that falls in the category of if you don't use it you lose it... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 970804 Sweden 07/13/2012 03:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't see the difference... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19692087 Modern information age tech is just the same shit we always did, it's just better and faster. Each of us comes into the world with NOTHING, and we use whatever resources we have to gain information as we go. We used to have "the elders" and the oral tradition, which was not very good, and then we gained the ability to write, but then we had to comb through volumes physically to get at the information. Then we had the telephone, and we could call an expert to get the information. Now we have Google, and it takes all the same processes and makes them all easier. I don't think it makes us dumber, because we were already dumb...it just takes our ways to access information to a whole new level. Thank God for it too, we have the information available to us now that not too long in the past would have been inconceivable for people, it's really amazing when you stop to think about it. well spoken |
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Trbl Ivan User ID: 18258222 United States 07/13/2012 03:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I guess Im lazy... Every time I read something important of internet I try to absorb and remember as much as possible So I don't have to look for it again next time I need related info. Last Edited by Im Ruzzki on 07/13/2012 03:41 PM You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. Sherman |