Is Technology Making Us Smarter or Dumber?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- Is the internet killing our memory? Are smartphones making us stupid? Is technology making us dumber?
In this installment of Think Bubble, we tackle this age-old question head on.
This video was adapted from an article by Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath in the May 2020 edition of The Scientist
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So basically it's like knowing very well where your books are instead of learning the knowledge in them. Like, "why should I learn what is in the book if I can keep that information safely stored inside the book and save my brain the trouble?"
books aren't a good example because no one caries them around.
But it takes 5 seconds to input my password to my phone, hit messages, and the phone number is faster and than if I were to try and recall it.
Yes this is a good point. Eventually we will have all the information we need not only at our fingertips, but in our brains itself. Yes in a sense it makes us dimmer because we no longer need our brains to generate an answer. Instead, we use our brain to browse for an answer in the infinite information database called the internet. We are trading knowledge over being "smart" for example: You may ask what temperature water boils. A smart person trying to find an answer by making the experiment and boiling the water and measuring temperature when it starts to boil. Today's "modern" person would give you an answer in 10 seconds by searching it on the internet which has all the information you can imagine. And even in schools they should start changing education programs from trying to solve problems, to using tools for solving problems.
Yes I think, thats a good example, even if "we dont carry them around". But then I actually DO carry around the books I read at the moment, at least. Im worried about the lack of questioning the source of the knowledge, or at least PROPERLY processing it in our human brains. Also, I have no wish to be, "in my earthly form" a HUMAN. But society, will it in the future always give that option, asking beforehand ? Or will it make it increasingly difficult, or even demand in some way, me or the ones after to implement technology, into my body and person ? From what I see so far, the "higher ups" rarely ask, but systemically bully, people in underhanded ways to submit to more control. And then when it gets to a certain point, they remove option A, which is better for people, and replace it with only option B and C, which they either have absolute control over, or which they have a vested interest in for shady monetary reasons "its not called stealing if youre rich". Its so weird that politics, started out to give as many people, a chance to "have a say" way back when, and now its just become a stage play for manipulation. But I guess every established organization has its "nice start", its "glory days" but then comes corruption, swiftly (bleeping!) everything up. But enogh about that major mess, Im also worried about stuff like, IMAGINATION, and "thinking outside the box" and what we in Sweden call "the opinion corridor"(the "established correct way of thinking") Im not saying this generation, and young people in general, lack sense, because I dont believe thats true AT ALL. But unbalanced ego and narcissism ? Thats the mindkiller. Then you cant see anything else, and since you according to yourself IS NEVER WRONG, you can NEVER learn anything of real value. And that paired with technology, spells disaster. Then theres also "the shiny new toy" effect. And the shiny new toy, looks a lot like a pandoras box. At least if we dont do things without, proper and long consideration for consequences. Aaaaand along comes the ego thing again, with "as long as its not me, and I gain profit from it" shortsightedness. I used to love google, it used to be THE BEST ENCYCLOPEDIA EVER, in its beginning and heyday. Again "way back when". Now I feel like every single technological thing "on here" comes with a catch. Spying, hacking, controlling, stalking, profit at the cost of privacy, monitoring, bullying, scams, and.... ads. So many ads, it ruins the content. Well, a lot of the time you can get rid of it, for a fee. But still. And I do think this whole internet thing, makes our ways of thinking "flatter" and more "straightlined" but NOT in a good way. Because when Im saying "straightlined", I dont mean "Occams razor", I mean an inability to think of ways in more complicated ways, and complicated solutions to complicated problems. I also think that people in general, have become bad at offering simple, step by step explanations. And once they themselves have learnt something, they have forgotten how it was TO NOT know those things. And their own learning process. So they suck at explaining things. They just press buttons and give VERY academic "pre-prepared answers", that for the newcomer mentally, is like trying to leap from one cliff to another, In Grand Canyon. I dont dislike technology at all. I just dont think it should be used in a "blanket-wish-fulfillment-concequences-be-damned" way. It should be an ad-on tool, aid and for systemic searches and medical things, yes. But NOT "the main thing", and NOT used for EVERYTHING. Like a gun, a knife, fire, chemicals or "heavy machinery", it should come with great responsibility and forethought. Not willy-nilly by impulsive idiots.
Bingo!
Technology hasn't really impacted my memory, but it has confused the heck out of a lot of people, so I did a video called 'Old People Ain't Stupid, They're Confused' to help define why old people struggle so much with technology.
2:33 This is not good logic: for it could just be the case that it impacts our ability to remember *new* things, and leaves old memories unimpacted. Not that I know you are wrong about your conclusion, but at the least the logic you used to get to your conclusion is bad.
Well if you make self-driving cars people are going to forget how to drive. If you keep taking adversity away from people. They are never going to figure out how to overcome it.
Exactly
Jared, I'm interested in your thoughts on whether the memory issue with phones is more about the difference in procedural and declarative memories than it is between recognition and recall??
Ooh - good thinking! Knowing HOW to access your contacts or google using a smart phone is definitely proc, but knowing WHAT you want to look up and where to find it is dec. I suppose if you look up the same number in your contacts every day, it could become proc (without you ever remembering who ypu're trying to call). This is a good example of how dec amd proc are intertwined!
Great question Craig!!
I like the new format. The illustrations help support what you're saying, although I love your earlier video format too.
Will you be looking at other technologies? Zoom would be interesting.
Thanks ava! Going to be mixing the two formats up in the future - definitely worth looking into zoom! I'll start digging!
I have a project coming up on whether 'technology is making us dumb?' I'm planning on answering*yes it is making us dumb* aswell as *no it isn't* and finally conclude by saying it depends person-person , choices and judgement of oneself that proves how technology impacts oneself. I would like a view on this from you/anyone , much appreciated 👍
And what happens when we lose access to technology that remembers things for us?
This was Socrates biggest gripe against writing - and he was correct! When a library burns down, we don't merely lose the books...
Thanks so much!!! Helped me with my debate!
Which side won?
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I've never owned a phone despite being a teen, never needed one. It's like poison in your hand, tens of thousands of hours wasted.
hey
is it possible to release the script for this video?
really like your contents but what is that sound every time a new argument pops up? kind of annoying
Nice! I like the video.
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Well why do we need to know anything if the computer or phone can just tell us
that's the problem, most humans are willingly becoming useless, empty, blobs in real life with fake profiles online....and defending their right to do it.
I think about uses of technology that are socially acceptable and used by the majority to provide answers to every question that they do not have the ability to answer. I think about how this may be changing our perception of what it means to be an intelligent individual. If you don't know the answer to a question some may argue that the most intelligent thing to do is Google it.
Fun Fact: Google sues (or threatens to sue) media that contains the phrase "google it" because in the U.S. law if something is commonly used enough and no longer means what it originally meant then it no longer has copyright protection. This means google would lose their name as a trademark, because whether you are searching it on bing, google, firefox, internet explorer, chromium, or any other search engine society uses the term "google it" and are not talking about google, they just mean look it up. So yeah, google takes copyright laws very seriously.
a Razor was a specific company who invented metal devices to shave your facial hair, but because of generality, and the use of razor meaning ANY object that has that function, it lost it's trademark.
Fun Fact over
i liked the video but wtf are these sound effects i feel like i'm in some kind of a satanic tribe .
It's called a Didgeridoo, a traditional Aborigines instrument. I think it sounds cool, but it has limited import for demonic evocation.
It's called a Didgeridoo, a traditional Aborigines instrument. I think it sounds cool, but it has limited import for demonic evocation.
Content was good but I really can't stand these sound effects
no bcs this is giving us information (duh)