An article I published in Miller-McCune magazine argues that we can't trust our intuitions about our own intelligence and that there isn't much reason to worry.
The internet allows us to goof off, it can be distracting and even addictive, and it doesn't lend itself to a deep focus on one topic in the way that reading a book does. But the internet also allows far more of us to explore far more information than ever before, far more quickly.
So If you threw away your iPad, Android phone, and laptop, would you find that your brain has already been poisoned? Or would you still be who you were before? Should you let your kids use the internet as a way to develop intellectually? Is the internet a disease we can't recover from, can we use it profitably without becoming dumb, or does it make us smarter?
