Google eyed

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/

i found the article very interesting. Not that i agreed with all of it, but it brought to light much about the way technology is an extension of ourselves. With technology we are evolving i believe. Why evolve physically when we can push the extensions of ourselves to become better adapted? In a way this is great! They trouble comes when we move too fast and forget to upgrade the brakes as well. With each new technology, new questions of ethical behavior arise. These loopholes are easily taken advantage of until someone recognizes the problem and fixes it.

The question about whether or not our minds are conditioned to obtaining information quicker seemed more of a blessing to me.
Our minds are taking in so much more information than ever before, which may lead to an increase number of people with so called "ADD" but that's more of a fault of advertising to me. It isn't the internet itself that distracts us but the way in which companies have used it. This happens all the time anyways, it's just a matter of people understanding that with more power comes more responsibility. We all have more access nowadays and it takes a greater deal of willpower to focus at such a speed. I don't have any more trouble focusing on internet sites than i do trying to focus with someone nagging at me. I do enjoy reading in a quiet environment, and it always seems to be hard to find. Just as it's pretty hard to find a webpage free from annoying ads, pestering little children who just want your attention. Again this just seems logical and not much of a big deal as this writer tried to make it seem.

i defintely agree with the Krasnow Institute and have always thought that our minds are molded even as adults. We will always have control of the however. It may at times feel as though we are being manipulated but as long as you look out for manipulators you can outsmart them. Humans will always think of new ways to get what they want. This is why we are top of the food chain, our adaptive abilities. Our adaption increased tremendously with the communication of information and the spreading of new ideas. this will continue to get faster and we must understand the implications that is all.

The last comment bothered me even more than most. "It is our own intelligence flattens into artificial intelligence" He used the word flatten to instigate a feeling of lessening our intelligence as a bad thing. Well of course that's what AI is. We will create whatever is created out of our own image as everything is created comes from ourselves. Yes it will be an extension of ourself and yes it won't be as good as the real thing for a while. Was the first painting a flattening of the human aesthetic? well yes. but it wasn't exactly a negative thing now was it?