Does technology enhance our intelligence or does it inhibit it?
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Posted by LordR1160 May 10th, 2012 at 2:37PM
Technology is a tool...Intelligence is innate. If the intelligent use technology in an intelligent way, then it is enhancing. If the ignorant choose to use it in an ignorant way, I guess it's still pretty neutral...Technology is completely dependent on how it is utilized
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Posted by freeandeasyo May 19th, 2012 at 5:06PM
That's a great question. Technology has simply provided us with a new way to store, share and communicate knowledge.
A person's intelligence grows by the amount of information one chooses to store in one's brain - not in some device.
From my perspective, I think that it's a sad thing that since the eighties, and maybe even the seventies, the general population is losing, or has lost the ability to do mathematics in their heads, spell words correctly, write letters, or for that matter, even to perform proper handwriting - to name a few talents that I think have been lost. To my ming, that says that our collective intelligence has not grown, it has diminished.
And I think we should all fear the days when we run out of fossil fuels and the day when a huge solar storm wipes out our satellites and our ability to produce electricity.
We humans may think we're good, but Nature Rules and always will.
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Posted by ForgottenMuse May 10th, 2012 at 2:33PM
it enhances our ability to acquire information... It's up to the individual to pursue it, however.
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Posted by BamPow May 10th, 2012 at 2:30PM
There's a difference between intelligence and information. It's possible to be data rich while being knowledge poor. In the end, the technology only enhances the efficiency of the tools, but it doesn't guarantee those holding the tools know how to use them.
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Posted by prism9 May 20th, 2012 at 10:03AM
Technology speeds up life and admittedly makes things easier but it also inhibits our natural predisposition to actually Live our lives and to personally seek for answers big and small, to mull and ponder them and then filter and decide that which is Truth for us. When we do that, these things become a permanent part of who we are, our beliefs. The easy access that we have to the quick fix and to milions of "facts" gives us information overload keeping everything shallow and unvalued. Where in this do we take the time to grow?
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Posted by weewass May 14th, 2012 at 2:26AM
The kids of today are full of the new technology but have no common sense,they are loosing the ability of face to face communication and interaction with other kids.
Depends on how it is passed across.
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Posted by dragonsteel May 10th, 2012 at 5:43PM
As I once read. "We live in a time of smart phones and stupid people".
I kinda believe more inhibit VS help just because, people don't force them selves to solve difficult questions with so much access to easy answers.
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Reply by londdragon May 13th, 2012 at 11:50PM
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Posted by Oddandsingular May 10th, 2012 at 2:49PM
If having a head filled to the brim with useless factoids means we are more intelligent, then, yes.
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Posted by xxorama May 10th, 2012 at 2:37PM
Both. It all depends how you use it
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Posted by 0Dani May 10th, 2012 at 2:34PM
It does both. If you use it right as a tool for you, it can do wonders. If you let it use you, then your brain ends up like mashed potato.
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Posted by FurryFace May 10th, 2012 at 2:34PM
neither , but great for reaching out , communications
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Posted by 151rby May 10th, 2012 at 2:33PM
Neither, but it can enhance or inhibit our ability to apply our intelligence, depending on the person and the situation.
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Posted by RogueAngelWithoutWings May 10th, 2012 at 2:29PM
Technology is a blessing and a curse.
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Posted by MadamsLee May 10th, 2012 at 2:28PM
maybe both....inhibit where it slows the memory down,
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