Addiction to technology is creating digital slaves who can’t think for themselves
‘It would amaze you to know that a lot of people nowadays are turning to the Internet for answers to life’s simplest questions; then again, maybe not, maybe you’re doing it yourself.
According to Mountain View, California-based multinational tech company Google, people from around the world have been asking for instructions on seemingly self-evident things such as how to or how not to get pregnant, how to make a toast, and even how to kiss.
“We have become so independent on offloading, on relieving our brains from keeping certain basic, human information in storage, that we’ve forgotten to do some fairly basic grown up tasks,” researchers at Google’s News Lab said. (Related: Google’s propaganda search engine distorts perceptions to control people’s thoughts – try Good Gopher instead, a propaganda-free search portal.)’
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