Tools That Change the Way We Think

"Back in 2004, I asked [Google founders] Page and Brin what they saw as the future of Google search. 'It will be included in people's brains,' said Page. 'When you think about something and don't really know much about it, you will automatically get information.'

'That's true,' said Brin. 'Ultimately I view Google as a way to augment your brain with the knowledge of the world. Right now you go into your computer and type a phrase, but you can imagine that it could be easier in the future, that you can have just devices you talk into, or you can have computers that pay attention to what's going on around them and suggest useful information.'

'Somebody introduces themselves to you, and your watch goes to your web page,' said Page. 'Or if you met this person two years ago, this is what they said to you... Eventually you'll have the implant, where if you think about a fact, it will just tell you the answer."

-From In the Plex by Steven Levy (p.67)

Comments:

By using extensive Internet/media/technology it makes think about how it caused less of a motivation for me to actually learn about something. When I use the computer and different websites to look up something it doesn’t actually stick to my memory. I just look up the topic and in just a matter of seconds answers pop up for me. This media also messes up my concentration. Sure like any other person, there are times when people are doing research on a homework assignment and think to themselves “I’ll just check my messages really quick no big deal” but in reality it distracts us from trying to get homework done. Then time is running out, so people just look up something really quick and find the easiest answers they can get. From this distraction of loses our concentration, it has made it harder for people to actually get something out of their research. These kind of things have made us lazy on wanting to learn about something we have never known before. By learning about the filter bubbles it makes me feel like when I am doing research, I am not learning everything I am supposed to know. Since the filter bubbles limit me from certain information because they “think” they are giving me what I want, I feel like there is a lot more information out there that I should know of. When comparing myself to older people without smart phones or contemporaries who don’t use the tools we use today, shows how much easier it has gotten for everyone. With just typing in a certain topic we receive many answers that they would not have gotten back then.