The Thinking Man's Luddite<< The Thinking Man's Luddite | Main | JupiterResearch: The Next Chapter >> David Schatsky | March 27, 2006, 12:23 PM I agree with Card's critique of Edward Tenner's NYY Op-Ed piece on how Google is making us dumb. Tenner, who might be taken for the thinking man's Luddite, after his book "Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences," is probably temperamentally inclined to look for the downside of technology. But implicating Internet search in a decline of literacy is wide of the mark. Will a new generation of students fail to develop library research skills the way my parents' generation did? Probably. But then I've lost the art of hunting and gathering.
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