Is Google making us stupid?

Butler1000

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Only if you don't remember what you looked up.

My big thing is it ruins a lot of good bar dabates. Used to be you could go for hours. Now some busy body whips out his phone and ruins it with actual facts......
 

TESLAMotors

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It's also ruined our spelling, debates (with an e). All in jest.
However, you make a great point about someone ruining a conversation/debate with the phone surfing.
 

George The Curious

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Only if you don't remember what you looked up.

My big thing is it ruins a lot of good bar dabates. Used to be you could go for hours. Now some busy body whips out his phone and ruins it with actual facts......
I disagree. Debates can now be about more intelligent things rather than plain facts. About opinions and undiscovered things. Debating about known facts is waste of time.
 

GameBoy27

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What it means is that kids won't be able to bullsh*t their friends, like we did back in the day.
 

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djk

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the hobby needs more capitalism
I think instant gratification and high of getting a notification is a bigger threat.
 

Mrbluntx

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i don't think google has, it helps getting facts in a pinch when people are arguing over something without any concrete facts. what has ruined my life is auto correct/spell check I cannot spell certain words any more just get close enough to to word and auto correct it...
 

WoodPeckr

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wtf r u serious. texting proves correct spelling is np 2day 4 most peeps
 

pablice

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Google is quite liberating. I can now learn how to replace shingles on my house,make the best bbq ribs to knowing everything there is about photography without paying somebody to teach me. Google gives you the tools to help reach your full potential but it can also make you very lazy. It is only a good powerful tool set, and is effective based on how you use it. I love it I can now do almost any trade because of it.
 

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I don't think Google is making us stupid, I think they're making us a commodity.
 
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