What are some of your biggest fears? If your list is anything like mine, I’m guessing spiders, snakes, the dark, and heights may appear amongst your list of worst nightmares. But the real question is: Are you scared of the internet?
Turns out that one of the questions most often asked to brain scientists is, “Does the internet damage your brain?” This is a genuine concern for a lot of people. But as you’ll soon learn through Jeff Stibel’s video, the internet doesn’t so much change our brains as ours brains adapt to it.
One of the main points Stibel makes is that “we are fundamentally changing our beliefs on what intelligence actually is, what is important in society through an intelligence stand point.” This means that what people used to consider as smarts is now accessible through the internet. Thus, the internet is simply expanding our horizons and changing our idea of what smart really is.
Because the internet is storing knowledge for us, the focus of society can change to what makes us uniquely human. That has the power to benefit society in the years to come.
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