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slapass · 04-03-2016, 04:12 PM

I have a friend who whips out her phone and googles everything. Tell her that China has 3 billion poeple and within seconds she has the correct answer. in the past a person could declare a "fact" and with enough bravado, everyone would accept it. Not any longer. You can take the wind out any braggart's sails with a quick mumbled sentence to Siri.

Interesting times.

SilentKnight · 04-03-2016, 04:14 PM

And fact-checkers are so much fun to have a conversation with, too.

bronco67 · 04-03-2016, 04:21 PM

I hate that too...but it is cool to have the ability to find out whatever the fuck you want in 0.2 seconds. Remember when you knew things by reading a book or hearing it from someone else's mouth?

SilentKnight · 04-03-2016, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by bronco67

I hate that too...but it is cool to have the ability to find out whatever the fuck you want in 0.2 seconds

True...but why, if we have that ability now...do people seem to be getting collectively more stupid?

LatinaCamChat · 04-03-2016, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by SilentKnight

True...but why, if we have that ability now...do people seem to be getting collectively more stupid?

Because many people, like the old geezer thread starter, are only discovering what Google is used for in 2016 or haven't even discovered so yet. This thread should have been posted at least 10 years ago.

MaDalton · 04-03-2016, 04:43 PM

This was covered in an episode of HIMYM years ago - no more fighting over who knows what better

Sly · 04-03-2016, 04:56 PM

That would annoy the hell out of me. She must be really cute. ;-)

georgeyw · 04-03-2016, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by MaDalton

This was covered in an episode of HIMYM years ago - no more fighting over who knows what better

I feel a deep sadness for actually knowing what sitcom that acronym stands for

Rochard · 04-03-2016, 08:22 PM

Remember when every household had a set of encyclopedias? LOL.

Those were the days.

ErectMedia · 04-03-2016, 09:34 PM

Beats an old friend of mine who pulled out a calculator at dinner to make sure he didn't pay a penny more than him and his wife ate at dinner. Old friend of mine for a reason.

bns666 · 04-04-2016, 03:49 AM

nothing new about that behavior...

MaDalton · 04-04-2016, 03:58 AM

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Originally Posted by georgeyw

I feel a deep sadness for actually knowing what sitcom that acronym stands for

CurrentlySober · 04-04-2016, 03:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Rochard

Remember when every household had a set of encyclopedias? LOL.

Those were the days.

I even remember the door to door encyclopaedia salesman calling !

MiamiBoyz · 04-04-2016, 04:19 AM

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Originally Posted by bns666

nothing new about that behavior...

Nope...a cunt will always be a cunt.

slapass · 04-04-2016, 05:16 AM

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Originally Posted by bronco67

I hate that too...but it is cool to have the ability to find out whatever the fuck you want in 0.2 seconds. Remember when you knew things by reading a book or hearing it from someone else's mouth?

And how often did you requote some interesting fact to find out it was wrong? I think my youth was filled with rubbish as far as facts go.

I was on the sideline for this display so I was neither trying to get erroneous facts in or check the facts. It was just an interesting moment that did not exist 10 years ago.

Barry-xlovecam · 04-04-2016, 05:51 AM

c. 2006

United States Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) a man 'ahead of his time' -- a Luddite call-to-action!

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[T]hey want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material ...

Change is constant and the old die off -- it has always been this way

J. Falcon · 04-04-2016, 09:10 AM

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Originally Posted by SilentKnight

True...but why, if we have that ability now...do people seem to be getting collectively more stupid?

Mostly due to information overload. It can become difficult to make a decision, understand an issue, when there is too much information to process. Also, because it has become too easy to find out what we want to know, we basically ask our computers everything.

ilnjscb · 04-04-2016, 11:56 AM

I love it. I just sit and look up shit that I wondered as a child, and see were it takes me. I can read all night.

J. Falcon · 04-04-2016, 12:03 PM

That reminds me of:

ITraffic · 04-04-2016, 12:09 PM

bronco67 · 04-04-2016, 12:27 PM

My wife and I will stop a movie so we can IMDb an actor because it's driving us crazy that we forget what movie we saw him in before. If there was no internet, we'd say "he was in that movie where the thing blew up" and forget about it a few seconds later. Now that you know you can find out anything, the urge to find out is hard to resist.

CurrentlySober · 04-04-2016, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by bronco67

My wife and I will stop a movie so we can IMDb an actor because it's driving us crazy that we forget what movie we saw him in before. If there was no internet, we'd say "he was in that movie where the thing blew up" and forget about it a few seconds later. Now that you know you can find out anything, the urge to find out is hard to resist.

I do that too, minus the wife part

bronco67 · 04-04-2016, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by CurrentlySober

I do that too, minus the wife part

Good luck with that.

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