People are the problem blog 6

The podcast did not change my view about if Google is making us stupid or not. People are making people stupid. We are given all this new technology but it does not say anywhere that we have to over use and abuse it. If I choose to sit on my computer and play video games for ten hours a day then I can understand why people would say technology is making us stupid. The amount that people use technology is what is making them stupid. If we did not use technology so much it would not be a problem. There is a lot of people that use technology constructively and to help them with school work and other things so it is not completely bad.

            People may not be using books from the library as much, but a lot of those books that we find in the library can be found on the internet. There are many websites that have all the scholarly journals that we use to get information. The mix of technology and the old school way of doing things can help people. Like with the library here on campus we are able to use the computer to see what books are in the library or not. Everything that can be found in the library can be found online people just are not using Google and the internet in that way.

The growing laziness of people is the reason they are becoming stupid. People allow technology to affect them negatively so they are at fault. There are many people that do not allow technology to run their lives and I believe those people are smarter. When used properly technology can make people smarter being able to communicate face to face and having the skill to use computers expands what a person can do. Using technology is like knowing another language. People who know more than one language can relate to more people and communicate in more ways. People who know how to use technology well and communicate well face to face can relate to more people. If people could balance how much they use technology I think it could make people smarter.