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Episode 109. When you learn there are gaps in your knowledge when you don't have the answer to something you don't have the details to something you go to a search engine usually Google I'm assuming and you type in your question if you're really good at Google you type in your question. If you're really good at Google,

you type in exactly what you need to find the answer.

You click on the first, second, or third result.

You read what it says.

And then you kind of, sort of know that now. And then you kind of sort of know that now and then you promptly forget this factoid

until the next time that you need it. This behavior that's become part of our normal

everyday lives has led some people to say maybe this is

making us dumb. The latest research suggests that technology is not making us stupid and Google is not turning us into lazy thinkers.

But it is doing something to us that's pretty weird. The evidence suggests it's causing us to believe that we're smarter than we really are.

It's inflating our confidence and our understanding of the world.

See, knowing that you can search the internet

is qualitatively different than knowing

that you might need to consult a dictionary if you don't understand a word, or go to an encyclopedia, if you don't understand an idea, or make a visit to the library if you need to do a report or write a thesis or something like that.

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