Thread: Is technology making us smarter?

Technology makes it possible for us to enjoy entertainment. If we didn't have so much technology we would be spending a lot more time on things like getting food. All the stuff that makes our life easier saves us a lot of time, and with that extra time we are free to relax and enjoy entertainment. Honestly I don't think people are really addicted to tv and stuff. Normally they watch it when they are bored, not because they need to.

I read an article by Steven Pinker.... never mind just found it here http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/op...=1&ref=opinion

I agree with him.

Technology isn't making anyone dumber. It gives us readily available information. We spend less time looking for it (flipping through a fucking huge encyclopedia to find half a page of info vs typing what you want and finding several pages and links to extended information explaining what you were originally reading and related things etc.) and more time reading it and learning it.

The only people that use all their time on gossipy sites and watching mind numbing tv shows are the people who gossip anyway and would gossip without any technology.

In other words, trivial people will spend all their time pursuing trivial information, such as other people's lives.
Intelligent people with a thirst for knowledge and a hunger to understand the universe will spend their time learning about the universe.

Technology won't change this.