Posted on 09/13/2008 2:31:09 PM PDT by bowman11
Were we more intelligent when we had no computers or did we gain only with general knowledge with the help of internet? For more please visit www.onlinearticles.co.cc
I could not have said it any better.
It has totally changed every aspect of my life.
I’ll have to google my opinion on this one.
Well I get my news from the internet and am getting closer and closer to cancelling my newspaper and cable TV.
“Were we more intelligent before we had the Internet? Click on this to find out...”
That pretty much answers the question...
An educated man is not merely the man that has memorized answers but, rarther, the man that can formulate the appropriate questions and knows where to find the answers. For that, you still need a brain.
The Internet has given us a research library, beyond the wildest dreams of past scholars, right in our own house.
What's taking you so long? I cancelled cable TV after Gore conceded.
It’s all in how you use it.
“there is almost no need to use brains”?
Perhaps you’re Googling (or Freeping, or Wikipediaing, or car-forum-ing) incorrectly. It’s probably increased my knowledge of how things work 100-fold over the next best (and much slower) source of information: books.
Literally anything I come across that I don’t understand, I hop online and get a great grasp of in <5 minutes. Or spend a half hour to an hour and understand it inside and out in the greatest detail.
If you look around yourself right now and can see object whose operation you don’t understand, it’s because you decide not to (if you don’t care how that flash memory stick works, or your ceiling fan, or your car’s transmission, that’s fine...but my point is if you change your mind the internet is sitting right there with every detail, cutaway view, and reference to a dozen related topics as well).
I still take the paper, then look at TownHall, WSJ Online, FR, Drudge, etc to get other opinions. I have all sorts of data at my fingertips that I can use. Facts, opinions, all have to be filtered.
The bottom line is, we are much more informed. That really hacks off the people pushing agendas.
What’s the internet?
Knowledge is power. When I have need to learn something I simply google it and there in an instant is wealth of reference material. I recently started building a Mopar muscle car and in the span of 6 months I had as much info from people all over the world than I could have garnered in a lifetime of doing things the old way. There is no turning back now. The important thing is to continue working with your hands. Do real work and the computer poses no threat.
A few years back I realized how much time I spent on the Internet so I just threw caution to the wind and had my self digitized and uploaded.
It saves alot of time and bathroom breaks are no longer a problem, I just keep a window to DU open and let fly when the need arises.
Yep. As long as your girlfriend's last name is not ".JPG", you're probably doing fine. ;-)
.avi okay? :)
Well I did meet mine online.
I’m slowly getting disgusted by what little there is to watch.
I do want to keep it for severe weather (local tv for tornado warnings).
Have never been much of a movie fan. I looked at tonights lineup and YUCK!!!!
I’m going to watch old “Fame” reruns on the internet I guess. Got my bible studying done for tomorrow and Tuesday but it never hurts to spend more time with the Good Book.
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