Google's Impact on Human Cognition

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Response to: “In Google We Trust” Andrea Schlesinger’s, “In Google We Trust” a chapter in her book The Death of Why? The issue is that the internet has changed people and that it may not be a good thing. Google has changed the way that people think greatly, especially in our ability to analyze, understand and know the source of the information we receive from google.
I agree with Schlesinger when she suggests that “we have come to believe that wisdom is accessible somewhere on a web page, if only we find the right one” (58). I feel that we have been taught that the answer to everything is on the internet and all we have to do is type a question into a search box press enter and the answer shall magically appear. However there isn’t always …show more content…

I can relate to this because every time that I have been asked to do research for a paper, the first thing I turn to is the internet. I don’t think that I have ever once gone out to find or discover my own information. The closest I have ever gotten to actually going out to find information was once in my cols class when we were all assigned a college resource to go to and ask someone working there what they are “all about”. I love that Schlesinger is concerned about this issue, I am too, and this worries me because one day my generation will be running the whole world and if we believe the answer to everything is on the internet what happens when we come across a question that the internet can’t answer? Will we leave it unanswered and simply forget about it or will we be able to go out and find the answers for ourselves. Kind of like Schlesinger askes “will we grow accustomed to only asking questions that we know we can answer by using out cell

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