Even beyond individual skills, there’s a bigger issue: what happens to innovation if AI users become passive consumers of machine-generated knowledge instead of active thinkers?
the true danger is a societal standstill where human progress altogether grinds to a halt.
If navigation apps weaken our spatial awareness and autopilot dulls a pilot’s situational awareness, what happens when AI starts handling intellectual tasks – writing reports, solving math problems, synthesising research?
Studies show that heavy GPS users have less activity in the mapping center
or me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind.
the progression eyes - ears - mind . he is tracing the path of digital consumption. how technology interfaces with humans
A few Google searches, some quick dicks on hyperlinks, and I've got the telltale fact or pithy quote I was after
Carr uses words like "quick" and "a few" to highlight the speed of the internet. While this sounds positive, the subtext of the entire essay is that this efficiency comes at the cost of deep reading and contemplative thought.