Google University
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Monday, February 16, 2004
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In a way, Google is an intellectual amplifier: it makes smart people smarter, but it also makes dumb people dumber, since a naive Google search can easily lead you to information that’s actually less useful than knowing nothing. In other words, don’t throw out your books quite yet.
Indeed.
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About James Joyner
It needed to be said.
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Now he’s blaming google?
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case in point, searching for Bush AWOL and coming up with Drum’s site.
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Stupid people don’t read books.
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Drum’s wisdom speaks for itself.
With or without Google he remains one of those whose opinion is worse than knowing nothing.
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It Needed to Be Said
And it was. In a way, Google is an intellectual amplifier: it makes smart people smarter, but it also makes…
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