I am not going to delve into the Gorman/Boyd debate, but I will provide this idea: what if the actual use of these new services on the Internet will dumb down those who use them extensively?
My theory comes from one of the last few sentences of Carr's post, which asked the question of our minds becoming smarter after using such things as Wikipedia. What worries me is the idea of Wikipedia: anyone from the respectable scholar to idiot with a keyboard and monitor can post information to the public, and make it look like an actual reference. In time, it is my theory that people will start to believe more of the idiot's information over the scholar's. We could come to a point of people refuting the base principles and ideas brought forth by education.
In time, this process could be repeated over and over again, leading to more people disbelieving everything we have worked to prove.
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