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)


The use of technology doesn't (at least to me) seem like a potentially dangerous thing, to people who know how to keep it under control. When the use of the internet for information or for any other source of knowledge removes you from experiencing the truth or gathering ideas of your own, you're doing it wrong. At the end of the day, most of everything everywhere on the internet is the OPINION of someone. Even if it claims to not be biased, it still has some sort of personal, skewed filter that is preventing the light of the truth to shine in fully. I personally don't think that it (technology) influences my thinking all too much. I tend to not make huge decisions in my life based on what is being fed out by the social media and technological innovations alike, I'd rather trust my opinion than some random person's out in Wisconsin. My style of thinking hasn't changed, unless its changed for the better. I now know tons of useless and obscure facts that I would have never learned in real life (thank you, CRACKED). Technology isn't bad, it doesn't make people less intelligent, nor does it take away from learning. It definitely CAN, but people who sub come to that just found a new way to do so, blaming technology for people being lazy is a cheap excuse for a problem that has been around for years. Technology is relatively new and due to xenophobic ideologies, its an easy scapegoat to target.

-Noe Bernal periodo 2