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It's think technology -like any other tool- can have differing effects based on how you use it. There are both advantages and disadvantage to using technology. If used properly it can help boost your knowledge and intelligence through learning from the internet but at the same always depending on it will gradually make you dumber. The calculator is a perfect example for a technology that could potentially make u less smart
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704025304575284981644790098

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When observing the advantages and disadvantages of technology, I have come to the conclusion that the internet makes people smarter. The internet contains information about nearly everything in this world. How someone chooses to use the internet is on them. Although the internet contains a lot of false information, it also contains true and reliable information which can give you knowledge. The access it gives you to information enhances your intellect. Information that was not accessible fifty years ago due to the internet not existing can be found within seconds online today.

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based on my experience I find it  help smart people to excel in their tasks, help the stupid to become smart and the smart to become more smarter. according to psychological researches( https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mr-personality/201305/is-technology-making-us-stupid-and-smarter) technology help people learn, and what is more important is that it's now the major source of information and knowledge world wide; and universities and schools help students the most by teaching them where to find there knowledge. Also,  without technology nowadays people cannot recall many, many things (To-Do lists, E-mails and even memories in pictures and music) even in my everyday life as a student I cannot imagine how hard my education would have been if there was no technology (laptops, internet) to work on my assignments and homework.

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Technology does make you smarter? (Pantea)

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Technology does make you smarter? (Pantea)

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In my opinion technology makes you smarter. The amount of recourses you can use in order to search up information is astonishing. When one does not know the answer to a question, simply searching it allows you to learn other people's ideas who also posted, and facts from professionals who know what they are talking about. The connections technology allows people to have with one another increases through the different applications and websites available to everyone. Technology allows people's words to be heard, and gives people a voice when needed. Technology is also a platform used for videos, images, and texts, allowing people to learn from others and/or put their thought/ideas out there for others on the web. For example, a 6 year old can simply search what percentage of the population is female and get an answer in .2 seconds. “nearly two-thirds of Americans own a smartphone, with 19% relying on their smartphones for accessing information and staying connected to the world around them. And when it comes to researching facts on the Internet, we’re more inclined to think the best not only of the source, but of ourselves as well.” (https://www.techlicious.com/blog/does-technology-make-us-smart-or-dumb/)

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The internet makes use smarter because it gives us all access to information whenever and wherever we want.  According to a survey three out of four experts say that the internet enhances our intelligence. One example i have is that my friend once wanted a dodge charger however after doing more research he soon realized that the dodge charger was very unreliable and would make him waste money on repairs.

https://www.cnet.com/news/the-internet-can-make-you-smarter-experts-say/

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Technology making us smarter - Christine 

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Technology making us smarter - Christine 

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Technology makes us smarter because it allows us to do anything within a matter of seconds. For example: If you're lost, you could use google maps and search up where you are and how to get to your destination. For iPhone users, they could use the source of Siri and ask anything. The internet connects us with many resources, and the information that we gather is there to use. It's deepens our understanding with what we want to do; it's quick and convenient.

'Huffington Post' states that technology makes learning more fun, making the kids more knowledgeable and it's mainly used for the enjoyment of it.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/aj-agrawal/how-technology-has-made-o_b_10577380.html

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In my opinion, technology makes you smarter. A study was revealed that the cognitive ability of people has increased continuously since 1930. Overall, internet makes us smarter as we have many resources to learn from, we have access to information that can helps us in school or as an individual. Therefore, the internet makes us smarter that helps us learn in a more efficient way with a variety of tools available online.

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on the flip side, technology can also decrease our intelligence because even though we are processing information much more quickly, the chances of us remembering this info is less likely. This is because it is historically and scientifically proven that humans remember information more easily when we write it down then when we type it into a machine.

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A study in 2008 finds that adults from 55-78 who used internet for a week found improvement in their complex reasoning. As browsing the internet stimulates neural activity and helps strengthen connections to aid us in decision making, which helps us with complex reasoning.

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Technology and the internet makes us smarter because it provides users with a platform in which they can use to obtain new information about a variety of topics. Technology itself teaches us to change the way we think, learn and remember things, it also provides people with different styles of learning instead of the typical reading from a book. For example, the internet can provide stimulations and models. , these digital stimuli helps teachers further explain concepts to their students to better their understanding.

http://mashable.com/2010/11/22/technology-in-education/#bOylKjUIb5q3

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The internet makes us smarter because it gives us access to resources of knowledge that we have not been able to access before. It let's us lean in different ways that allows everyone to understand a concept and gives us easy and convenient access right to our fingertips. Forbes states that the internet makes us smarter since it gives us a visual demonstration of different ideas from different sources which gives us a greater understanding of information. One example is Google news that gives us world information from many reliable sources as quickly as possible.

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Does technology make you smarter or stupider? (khadija) 

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Does technology make you smarter or stupider? (khadija) 

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Although technology has many negative effects on society, it is evident that the positive aspects it brings highly outweigh the negative. For example, technology provides individuals with the access to the internet,where they are able to obtain all kinds of information. Information such as current events in society, the ability to broaden their knowledge on different topics and to potentially become more knowledgable. In conclusion these are a few reasons as to how technology makes individuals smarter.

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Technology makes you smarter - Nicole Law

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Technology makes you smarter - Nicole Law

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With the evolution of the Internet, knowledge is quite literally at our fingertips. With only a few seconds, we can search up anything that anybody in the past would have to look through books for, or ask for second-hand information about within their community. Within minutes, people can learn how to fix a broken pipe, create art, and/or share their own knowledge and experiences to educate others. They can research things that might've taken 5 or 8 books to find complete information on. Instead of waiting for the bus that's always 15 minutes late, people can instead choose to be efficient about it and call the nearby Über user for a drive to their workplace. People have even been able to learn new languages and understand others through technology, all for free. Technology is a constant process that anybody and everybody can enjoy. While yes, technology has its drawbacks, it is undeniable that it holds a great deal of knowledge that can educate anybody- an example being me. When researching for assignments or presentations, the Internet is a reliable piece of technology which aids me in gathering valid evidence and sources on what I am studying.
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The internet connects us to more resources as well as connecting us with other people to gain deeper knowledge about what we want to know. We can learn basically anything off the internet, like learning math by watching Youtube videos, which is one way we are getting smarter from the internet.

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The internet gives us different sources to use to research and gain new information that we wanna know. The internet connects us to the world. For example the internet helps us connect to our old friends from across the world, without the internet we wouldn't have had this much knowledge growing all around the world. Anything you wanna know you will find it on the internet, the internet has made a evolution.

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Technology makes us smarter because it allows us to access tons of online tools that can support our learning. For example in the history classes, you are allowed a mindmup in which you can input everything you've learned in the whole semester and use it for the exam. 13 ways the Internet is making us smarter  https://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-weinberger/internet-makes-us-smarter_b_1225187.html

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The internet opens up a whole new world and information for you to explore. It makes us more knowledgeable about curiosities or about whats going on in the world. With just a few clicks if a button we have the world at our hands and can pretty much look up anything we want to learn about

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/aj-agrawal/how-technology-has-made-o_b_10577380.html

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Technology makes us as humans more intelligent because we are able to obtain more information easily which just a few clicks to add to our general knowledge of the world

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Open source research. Basically a lot of people are given the same information and people work together to solve problems.
Open science projects such as the Allen Institute of Brain Science provides free resources to researchers and educators.

https://alleninstitute.org/about/

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Does the internet make you smarter or stupider?

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Does the internet make you smarter or stupider?

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Although technology has many negative effects such as isolation from reality, lack in

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Does the internet make you smarter or stupider?

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Does the internet make you smarter or stupider?

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Essentially, I am going to say smarter but at the end of the day it depends upon the person. In my opinion, our lives are now more efficient, inexpensive, simpler, and faster since now we constantly have access to the world wide web. Technology makes us more knowledgable as it gives us a variety of information that we use and apply to our every day lives. Moreover, Technology allows people's words to be heard, and gives people a voice when needed. Technology is also a platform used for videos, images, and texts, allowing people to learn from others and/or put their thought/ideas out there for others on the web. For example, In terms of internet, it has made people “smarter” as they are able to research any number of topics in seconds or minutes that would have taken hours or days using the resources of an advanced research library. In terms of my own life. New technology has made learning much more fun. When I was growing, the only way I was able to learn was through textbooks and stories. On the other hand presently, my little cousins are now learning through educational games in their personal tablet through apps. Therefore kids are now becoming smarter and faster than ever before in human history. This is proven through United Nations Educational, Organization that states that exam results are dramatically climbing all around the world.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/aj-agrawal/how-technology-has-made-o_b_10577380.html

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Technology give people easy-quick access to knowledge. i have learned many things from the internet and television. When I was younger I learned many words from TV shows. Whenever i am in an argument with a friend about a fact, google is a useful resource that provides both parties with the correct answer leaving both of us with more knowledge and understanding about a subject

http://theconversation.com/is-technology-making-us-dumber-or-smarter-yes-58124

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Technology makes us more knowledgable as it gives us a variety of information that we use and apply to our every day lives. It has also made the quality of life easier, as new technology has improved the way we do things, such as performing simple everyday tasks. Collectively, technology has made us smarter, more capable and more productive. For example, if I
am writing an essay in English on a topic that I have limited information on, I would usually research online to look at similar topics and see different interpretations, in order to have new perspectives on the topic. This would be easier, and less time consuming than going to the library and reading multiple books in order to find the information you are searching for.

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Is this happening to us? And is it good? Assembly line illustration from shutterstock.com

The smartphone in your hand enables you to record a video, edit it and send it around the world. With your phone, you can navigate in cities, buy a car, track your vital signs and accomplish thousands of other tasks. And so?

Each of those activities used to demand learning specific skills and acquiring the necessary resources to do them. Making a film? First, get a movie camera and the supporting technologies (film, lights, editing equipment). Second, learn how to use them and hire a crew. Third, shoot the movie. Fourth, develop and edit the film. Fifth, make copies and distribute them.

Now all of those tasks are solved by technology. We need no longer learn the intricate details when the smartphone programmers have taken care of so much. But filmmakers are now freer to focus on their craft, and it is easier than ever to become a filmmaker. Historically, technology has made us individually dumber and individually smarter - and collectively smarter. Technology has made us able to do more while understanding less about what we are doing, and has increased our dependence on others.

These are not recent trends, but part of the history of technology since the first humans began to farm. In recent decades, three major changes have accelerated the process, starting with the increasing pace of humans specializing in particular skills. In addition, we outsource more skills to technological tools, like a movie-making app on a smartphone, that relieve us of the challenge of learning large amounts of technical knowledge. And many more people have access to technology than in the past, allowing them to use these tools much more readily.

Specialized knowledge

Specialization enables us to become very good at some activities, but that investment in learning - for example, how to be an ER nurse or computer coder - comes at the expense of other skills like how to grow your own food or build your own shelter.

As Adam Smith noted in his 1776 "Wealth of Nations," specialization enables people to become more efficient and productive at one set of tasks, but with a trade-off of increased dependence on others for additional needs. In theory, everyone benefits.

Specialization has moral and pragmatic consequences. Skilled workers are more likely to be employed and earn more than their unskilled counterparts. One reason the United States won World War II was that draft boards kept some trained workers, engineers and scientists working on the home front instead of sending them to fight. A skilled machine tool operator or oil-rig roustabout contributed more to winning the war by staying at home and sticking to a specialized role than by heading to the front with a rifle. It also meant other men (and some women) donned uniforms and had a much greater chance of dying.

Making machines for the rest of us

Incorporating human skills into a machine - called "blackboxing" because it makes the operations invisible to the user - allows more people to, for example, take a blood pressure measurement without investing the time, resources and effort into learning the skills previously needed to use a blood pressure cuff. Putting the expertise in the machine lowers the barriers to entry for doing something because the person does not need to know as much. For example, contrast learning to drive a car with a manual versus an automatic transmission.

Mass production of blackboxed technologies enables their widespread use. Smartphones and automated blood pressure monitors would be far less effective if only thousands instead of tens of millions of people could use them. Less happily, producing tens of millions of automatic rifles like AK-47s means individuals can kill far more people far more easily compared with more primitive weapons like knives.

More practically, we depend on others to do what we cannot do at all or as well. City dwellers in particular depend on vast, mostly invisible structures to provide their power, remove their waste and ensure food and tens of thousands of other items are available.

Overreliance on technology is dangerous

A major downside of increased dependence on technologies is the increased consequences if those technologies break or disappear. Lewis Dartnell's "The Knowledge" offers a delightful (and frightening) exploration of how survivors of a humanity-devastating apocaplyse could salvage and maintain 21st-century technologies.

Just one example of many is that the U.S. Naval Academy resumed training officers to navigate by sextants. Historically the only way to determine a ship's location at sea, this technique is being taught again both as a backup in case cyberattackers interfere with GPS signals and to give navigators a better feel of what their computers are doing.

How do people survive and prosper in this world of increasing dependence and change? It's impossible to be truly self-reliant, but it is possible to learn more about the technologies we use, to learn basic skills of repairing and fixing them (hint: always check the connections and read the manual) and to find people who know more about particular topics. In this way the Internet's vast wealth of information can not only increase our dependence but also decrease it (of course, skepticism about online information is never a bad idea). Thinking about what happens if something goes wrong can be a useful exercise in planning or a descent into obsessive worrying.

Individually, we depend more on our technologies than ever before - but we can do more than ever before. Collectively, technology has made us smarter, more capable and more productive. What technology has not done is make us wiser.
Editor's note: This article was part of a collaboration with Point Taken, a program from GBH that aired on PBS.

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Is technology making us dumber or smarter? Yes

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Technology has made us able to do more while understanding less about what we are doing, and has increased our dependence on others.

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It gives us access to all sorts of new information all across the world that we would not have access to before.

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Technology enabled people to have access on any type of information on a community on internet. However, due to such easy access on information, and posting of information, there is such high chance that they are exposed to a false or biased information. For example, Wikipedia is a website that comes at the very top when anything is searched on google. However, Wikipedia is a website that posts information about every type of information. It seems good that anything would come up when it is searched, but it cannot be reliable because everyone has authority to modify information on the website, so there is such high chance of getting biased and false information because of this characteristics. In an article The Internet Makes Us Stupid and Here's Why by Kabir Sehgal, the author introduces a book, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize by Nicholas Carr, and in the book, he claims that the technology is inducing an intellectual decay in human brains and is proven by neuroscience, and explains how our brain takes an information, and how memories are stored in different ways. Therefore, it is even scientifically proven that technology makes humans stupider. Even when I tried to find an internet, I had to search up who wrote an article,, if the information on the article was true, weather if it is biased too much and etc., and if I have not done it, I would have likely chose an unreliable article. Lastly, in my opinion, technologies make humans lose their creativities. Creativity is also an identity of every individual. Humans born, learn how to do things, find out their own ways of doing things and improve as they live their life. However, humans do not need to go through these process, learning, improving, experiencing failures, trying again, improving, still faces a failure but improves and it goes on and on until we finally get to the point where we satisfy. However, technology nowadays, allow us to have access to the others' information, how they have done this type of work successfully, how they could have done a work without failure, and etc., so what we end up of getting is what others have done in the past. Without knowing why, we tend to look for how, which becomes a real problem where an individual faces a situation where they have to make a decision on themselves, and failure they face by making a wrong decision would come much more painful, because they have never experienced one in their life, which is a consequences of connectivity that technology allowed us to have. Therefore, I think technology makes us stupider.

Source: http://fortune.com/2016/02/03/nicholas-carr-internet/

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With the evolution of the Internet, knowledge is quite literally at our fingertips. With only a few seconds, we can search up anything that anybody in the past would have to look through books for, or ask for second-hand information about within their community. Within minutes, people can learn how to fix a broken pipe, create art, and/or share their own knowledge and experiences to educate others. Instead of waiting for the bus that's always 15 minutes late, people can instead choose to be efficient about it and call the nearby Uber user for a drive to their workplace. People have even been able to learn new languages and understand others through technology, all for free. Technology is a constant process that anybody and everybody can enjoy. While yes, technology has its drawbacks, it is undeniable that it holds a great deal of knowledge that can educate anybody.

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Technology makes us smarter because we are able to learn many new things (such as what is going on in the world, new facts) and also expand our knowledge on certain topics by reading articles or information on websites, watching the news, and on social media. This all helps us to be able to apply new knowledge to our every day lives and school work.  http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/technology-makes-us-smarter

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We're able to access more information from a variety of platforms from a younger age. It's become much easier for us to be able to find information and keep up with world events than it ever has- we're exposed to news from all over the world as they happen. When François Hollande won the election in France, or when same sex marriage was legalized in America, we know the moment it happens. It's easier for us to further our own knowledge and learn about things that could have been inaccessible to us years ago.
Source:https://www.huffingtonpost.com/aj-agrawal/how-technology-has-made-o_b_10577380.html

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Technology makes it really easy for us to access wrong information  because of the information bias. Yes, it give us access, but are we really accessing the right information? The information found in books is more credible than what we can find online and that makes for bad information which in turn feeds us the wrong information. Tech is poisonous for our mind because we aren't feeding it anything whatsoever and with websites like essaytyper, it makes it so easy to completely slack off and not do any of the work ourselves. We think that technology is going to do all the work for us therefore we are slacking and are not learning anything new. We are only rewording what we read and not digesting what we see online or anywhere for that matter.

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I think that the internet can make you smarter. There are many resources on the internet than can further your learning; you can learn about topics in depth and expand your knowledge. Information is also very accessible when you use the internet.

For example, you can easily search up information using Google vs. going to the library to find a book. Being able to access different sources can help further one's learning, making one smarter.

Source:  https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/06/26/does-the-internet-make-you-smarter.aspx

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It allows for greater access to information, people and opportunities that were unknown and inaccessible 50 years ago.

For example, I can figure out what happened to a historical figure in 10 seconds, all at my fingertips on Google. I can find, for example, Pierre Elliot Trudeau's documented life including all online accounts of his political career, personal life and any other facts. A great example of a database with all aforementioned information is

the Canadian Encyclopedia online. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/pierre-elliott-trudeau/

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Technology makes you smarter because it allows you to access information and do research on topics you did not have knowledge on from before, which allows you to have a better understanding on certain issues. For example, students can use technology to find information for projects and research, which leads to them expanding their knowledge on certain subjects.

https://www.whoishostingthis.com/blog/2014/05/15/4-ways-the-internet-is-making-kids-smarter/

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Although everyone uses and depends on technology, it makes us smarter because it helps many individuals with what they need to do, it also shows a better understanding with the updated news for everyone to follow. It helps connect with people whom you don't particularly live close to. For example, if you were born in Vietnam and you moved to Canada, you would be able to use social media and connect with those people who are back in your hometown.