PLN #3

"Is Google Making Us Stuipid?", by Nicholas Carr, matters because it states that through the use of the internet more that our own brain, our brain will function as a computer and become dependent on the Internet. So, basically since the computer will exceeded the human brain in less that 4 years, as a species we will be dependent on technology and without it we are stuipd. This article means to me is that we will be a technology based country for the rest of our lives. Technology also changes the way our brian functions, it can change it's self to use the Internet as a add-on, to increase our intelligence. If in fact we're becoming more independent on technology why not stop so, by educational means, we become smarter. The reason we do this is because we can't. For example Mrs. Smith said she tried to go without her cell phone and computer for a week and she barely got through it, she also said that all she could think about was how many emails would be in here inbox, how to stay caught up on events, and how to teach class. That was just a cell phone and a computer, not all of the technology in her life. If we got rid of technology for education it would be a great triumph, but for the human race, it could never happen. For the world technology is a way of communicating, trading, having fun, etc. The Internet is something we take for granted, if we had a disaster that destroyed all of technology (like all those movies and video games) everything would come to a stop. Without technology the world would change back to the mind set of pilgrims coming to America for a new start. We want technology, we don't need it.