Saturday, February 20, 2010

Biz Break: Google and the Web make us smarter, 3 out of 4 experts agree - San Jose Mercury News

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Google and other Internet destinations aren't making us stupid: They're making us smarter, according to a vast majority of 895 experts surveyed by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and the Imagining the Internet Center at Elon University.

"Three out of four experts said our use of the Internet enhances and augments human intelligence, and two-thirds said use of the Internet has improved reading, writing and rendering of knowledge," study co-author Janna Anderson said in a statement released today.

"There are still many people, however, who are critics of the impact of Google, Wikipedia and other online tools," said Anderson, director of the Imagining the Internet Center at North Carolina's Elon University.

Biz Break: Google and the Web make us smarter, 3 out of 4 experts agree - San Jose Mercury News

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