![]() ![]() “It’s a mistake to treat intelligence as an undifferentiated whole. In their answers, many offered a more nuanced view. Seventy-six percent of the respondents agreed with the statement “By 2020, people’s use of the Internet will have enhanced their intelligence,” only 21 percent disagreed. ![]() ![]() The researchers asked them to agree or disagree with five statements about the future of the Internet, and to explain their answers. Respondees spanned fields including academia, government, business and journalism and included Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, technology journalist and analyst Esther Dyson, Google Director of Research Peter Norvig, and many others. In the new survey, researchers asked 895 experts to answer questions on what the Internet would look like in 2020. The survey, by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, is the center’s fourth poll on the future of the Internet (NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Brown talked to project director Lee Rainie about the third poll in 2006). Now, a new survey by the Pew Research Center finds that most Internet and technology experts disagree - they believe that the Internet is making us smarter overall, although it’s also changing some of the definition of human intelligence. In a widely-read 2008 article in The Atlantic Monthly magazine, writer Nicholas Carr asked “Is Google Making us Stupid?” He argued that as people learn to surf the vast amounts of information available online, they are losing the ability to concentrate and “dive deeply” into a subject matter. ![]()
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