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Description : What does the Internet do to your brain? Intellectuals and writers such as Doris Lessing, Brian Cathcart and Nicholas Carr argue that the web is making us stupider, killing our attention spans, and filling our brains with inanities. Jesse Brown proves these points by arguing against them.

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moopfather

This sounds like propaganda;without the internet the people would be in the dark about the truth!

wtfmaker2596

he internet dosent make you dumber it only makes your stupidity more easy to access :D yay for the internet the internet 4 EVER!!!

jhnd2010

@baabaa33 I'm not saying that the internet is bad, but it certainly is affecting peoples attention span, etc. I love the internet too, but all things in moderation!Peace, man.

baabaa33

@jhnd2010 give me a break...without the internet u would be crying right now

jhnd2010

@baabaa33 You are living proof that the Internet makes you dumber. Really. And you topped it all off with your incredibly unitellegentlly, politically incorrect vocabulary. Of all words, "retarded"?

cpt1chris

i like jesse's progressive way of thinking about thinking. i always wonder if the ability to do long divisions by hand, know roman numerals or memorize the names of every part of an animal cell is actual 'learning'. ‬we need to teach students and ourselves more critical thinking and less memorization. we live in a world where general knowledge is instantly accessible. sure you can recite all your countries former leaders names, but what good is that if we are all able to look it up instantly?

cyndrellian

i know i can't believe someone would actually take the time to make a video that is just completely worthless

Calliope222

So, because people don't have time anymore (and yet, in the not-too-distant past, which had its own distractions, people somehow found time), and because nothing can be proved 100%, we should just give up? Unacceptable. I would rather fill my mind with inaccuracies than put nothing but frivolities into it. I realize this, too, creates a binary of extremes, but I'm sorry; I just don't think it's acceptable to ignore the past. Real or not, winner's or loser's story, we can learn so much from it.

baabaa33

internet is awesome! this video is retarded

hughstimson

I'm curious Jesse: was the final collaged newspaper meant to be an honest representation, or was it just a nice bit of theatre? I tried the same thing with yesterdays Globe and Mail (sans scissors, I admit) and I found more than 4 pages of non-wire-service actual reportage in the first half of the front section before I quit. And now I will cast this comment into the black hole that is Youtube comment threads.

1234567loading

do you believe him? what should i do if i am a computing student and i have to use internet at least 8 hours daily???

gl600fb

this video is stupid

cyndrellian

I did cherry pick words, because people don't have all the time in the world to look at everything, it's just a fact, you could also go into a library and read a non fiction book about history and would you really know that it is 100% true, unless you were actually THERE? So it's either one extreme or the other it sounds like i haven't fully watched this video, but is the idea to either fully dissect everything or learn NOTHING at all?

Manusturbo

These ideas aren't new, really. People have been questioning the shifting nature of information and how it's perceived every time there's a the birth of new media. For every critic of innovation there'll be a Roland (the death of the author) Barthes and a David (The death of print) Carson, people who not only acknowledge but embrace these changes whole-heartedly.There's no "right" way to read or think, but we just risk becoming a dilettante at the end of the day.

Manusturbo

Ironically, your comment is interesting, because it proves the point in the video: instead of reading/interpreting, it sounds like you scanned through my comment and cherry picked words. I wouldn't say we're dumber, but our way of reading things is changing. It used to be you had to read things linearly. Now it's too easy to be postmodern and mix ideas with information in hyperlink. I'd say we're getting more creative with ideas but there are hardly any holistic or cohesive thinkers anymore.

Manusturbo

My, you're good at creating strawmen so you can laugh at what I didn't say :)It's not how much you know, it's how you derive meaning from what you know that really matters. Two people could read the bible, one could come away with an understanding of a primitive society, another could come to the conclusion that gays will go to hell and earth is 6000 years old. The Kim Peek analogy wasn't directed to you, but the millions of wiki stumblers who hoard information for the sake of it.

cyndrellian

so you're saying after you watch, analyze links, videos and other resources on the net, to make your own video to sum it all up, what if you don't have time to do that, does that make you a kim peek fan.... if you don't have the time, people should stay away from learning several things at once, is this right, let me know so I can make sure I do this "right" and not like kim peel HAHAHAH OMMMMG

cyndrellian

omg haha

TheWh4T

lol.

sumware

As a college prof who teaches about the internet, I'm glad to have students watch . I'll reiterate your points#1- What are we going to do about it? There is NO turning back.#2 Real intelligence is about thinking, not memorizing (when are school officials & government with its "No child left behind" testing going to understand?) #3 A new concept of intelligence - What we can accomplish TOGETHER (social media) WITH information and ideas and less about our ability to sign our names to them

Manusturbo

Their point was about consistency of thought and concentration, not how much fragmented information you can amass. You can get all the information you want, but if you don't have the patience or originality to analyze and interpret them in your own way, you're no better than an information-hoarder like Kim Peek was.

Luinreg

Economy has been saved to prevent the depression which was a key platform for both McCain and Obama.Our international stature has been restored where Obama has visited more world leaders in their home countries than any other president in a single year.It's really hard to truly notice under the outrage and molehill mountain stories that this year has been great for the United States. It just takes some personal research that no news or radio network can offer it all.

Luinreg

As for science? Remember how big stem cell research and the ban was during the Bush administration because of right to life?Well the ban thanks to Obama is now gone. So now scientists can now get resources from the government to research the potential of stem cells. Something Reeve(superman) fought for until his last breath.

Luinreg

As for job loss? Yeah it's still pretty bad at 10% but if you watched the local news most local stations were reporting since the fall that job losses have been doing down and less people have been claiming for unemployment benefits.The washington monthly on DEC.4th. Steve Bennen and his section Political Animal wrote an article that commented on the jobs lost since the recession. In that article there is a graph that you should look at.

Luinreg

Now keep in mind I criticize Obama because I'm a rational republican. However from where we were a year ago compared to today? We are a lot better off.For example, Obama promised to end the war on terror. That ball is rolling where Obama has given the military 18 months to get the job done and move military forces.Give me a moment and I'll get you more.