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WWC	10-14-2008 11:32 PM

Does using the internet increase your brain power?

Yes it does!!!! :-)

Ask scientists ... its proven!!!

Being online myself for over 15 years now, i am a genius lol...j.k. But seriously, when the internet became part of our lives in 1993, i remember trying to test even a live cam ( with a few friends like Chuck and Greg, a company they run called Video Secrets :-) ....i thought to myself, wow. What an incredible invention. And now, 2008 i still am amazed in the power of the internet!

And with all that information on the world wide web :-), your brain gets more knowledge increasing your brain power!!!

Can anyone find a few articles please :pimp

GigoloShawn

10-14-2008 11:35 PM

I believe it was more so in the inverse.

I spent like 1/2 an hour in 1994 making Trumpet Winsock work so I could dial into my SLIP (PPP? Yeah, sure!) account and use WinGopher and Mosaic (rarely) at a blazing 2400 baud. Of course, I had to learn how to use Gopher, migrate between the sites through various links, and I could spend hours reading dissertations, then talk to people all over the world via Usenet.

...now I just Google for stuff and get insulted on chat boards.

I'd say the inverse was true - the longer you're on the internet, the dumber you get, even if you learn things. :thumbsup

Brujah

10-14-2008 11:51 PM

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My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google

GigoloShawn

10-14-2008 11:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Brujah (Post 14899203)

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google

Whoa whoa, I'm not gonna read that wall of text! http://www.gfy.com/images/icons/heee.gif

InternetIsForPorn

10-14-2008 11:54 PM

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Originally Posted by GigoloShawn (Post 14899173)

Amen to that.

The Internet started dumbing you down once things became waaay too simple and accessible.

When you had to spend like hours figuring out how to get things done you HAD to think and evolve.

Now... you're basically 2 clicks away from anything

WWC	10-15-2008 02:20 AM

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Originally Posted by GigoloShawn (Post 14899173)

Nah, i see it more like your worker smarter and not harder...the only difference from what you did before and do now is worked smarter with tools.....believe it or not, you have advanced and there is nothing wrong with tools to help you work smarter.

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