This is one of my favorite sayings. This article from Nicholas Carr has me conflicted, because he questions how smart fast, accurate search algorithms actually make you.
For most day to day functions, a Google search can find almost any answer. However, original knowledge cannot be obtained through search. Carr says truth only comes from hard work and knowing.
Truth is self-created through labor, through the hard, inefficient, unscripted work of the mind, through the indirection of dream and reverie. What matters is what cannot be rendered as code. Google can give you everything but meaning.
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He's right, but it does make day to day answers to questions a whole lot easier and a lot more fun. Mom
and it made it easy to look up pictures of fireflies this morning for Brian when he wanted to see one. We got all kinds of information on the chemical reaction in their abdomen that causes light.
So, I'm thankful for all kinds of intelligence.
As an aside, Michael's been working on his juvenile fiction book and he finally let me read some of it the other night. Good stuff! Should be valuable reading for kids if it gets published, in my opinion. We also found out that he should be promoted next month. YEA!
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