Quote:When I read the title I immediately thought 'yes.' I mean people are helpless without it. The internet renders years of experience as maybe equal to a post I found.
It is a blessing, but its also a curse. Now your doctor isn't an expert because webmd has a disease that you have some symptoms of and your sure you got it. His years of medical training/residency/ and experience are brought into question for no other reason than you read something online and came into his office with a preconceived idea. Thats not only taking away your ability to think critically (by predisposing you to a certain outcome), but also ruining trust in a individual who spent years training for something based on a 2 minute google search.
But at the same time, it also gives us unprecedented access to information. We just don't always know what to do with it. Now I can find out if I am really getting a 'deal' on that car. I can read ratings of different companies and have an idea what they are like (although you have to take this with a grain of salt even now, as many companies specialize in gaming these kind of things).
So its a mixed bag. Just like the people who make it. Take it for what it is.
Not to mention that all the information is not entirely accurate and some is just down right BS. Some information you find is half true, or has a sprinkle of truth in a pile of bs..Some information is old and outdated...You can find information to counter any claim made by anyone.. The internet has made it so much more convenient for life in general including new technology that makes it to where you don't have to put forth much effort to do anything...
speak and it types your words, no typing or grammar skills required
watch video and tv on your phone...sure that's cool and all but is that really a necessity? Everyone has flat screen HD tv but you MUST watch movies and video on your phone...
If you misspell a word either auto correct fixes it or turns it into something not even remotley close...at the very least, it lets you know you misspelled something
all the acronyms make me feel as if I'm back in the Navy
there is a great benefit from the internet, but as with everything, it has drawbacks...Kids today don't even know how to address an envelope to mail from the Post Office, nor do they know how to write in cursive (not required to know in Pa. because they have a font for that), they don't even know how to look something up in the phone book...The internet has taken a lot of curriculum out of schools because if they want or need to know something that we were taught in school, all they have to do is a quick web search..
