Genuinely want a debate on this.
On one hand: access to information has never been greater. A person in a rural area in Nigeria with a smartphone has access to the same knowledge as someone at Oxford. That is extraordinary.
On the other hand: we seem to be getting worse at thinking. Attention spans are shrinking. We accept headlines without reading articles. We share information without verifying it. We mistake speed for intelligence.
My position: technology has given us tremendous tools and absolutely no instruction manual for the human brain. We have not evolved to handle infinite information at the speed of a scroll.
But I want to hear the counter-argument. Are you optimistic or pessimistic about where technology is taking human thinking? And why?
On one hand: access to information has never been greater. A person in a rural area in Nigeria with a smartphone has access to the same knowledge as someone at Oxford. That is extraordinary.
On the other hand: we seem to be getting worse at thinking. Attention spans are shrinking. We accept headlines without reading articles. We share information without verifying it. We mistake speed for intelligence.
My position: technology has given us tremendous tools and absolutely no instruction manual for the human brain. We have not evolved to handle infinite information at the speed of a scroll.
But I want to hear the counter-argument. Are you optimistic or pessimistic about where technology is taking human thinking? And why?
