Lately, i’ve become aware that i don’t actually think for myself anymore. Why think when the internet can do it so much better?
Can’t spell something? Google it or rely on the dotted red line. (If you right click on the word, it actually tells you the correct spelling. Magic!) Don’t know the definition of the word you can’t spell? Just add “define: wordican’tspell” and Google will tell you. I can use my ultra-portable Speak and Spell when I’m on the go, but I’ve yet to find an outfit that really works with it.
Can’t do simple math? Google calculator to the rescue. A pound to grams? Sweet Google!
Was there ever a war over bananas? Thanks Wikipedia. (This article does not cite any references or sources. Hmm. That can’t be a good thing. Ah well, what’s wrong with learning historically inaccurate facts? Probably won’t help your Trivial Pursuit game, but how often do you play that anyway).
Who played Wicket the Ewok in Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi? Thanks imdb.
This is why I cannot be disconnected from the internet ever. Or I would actually have to use my brain. My brain, that really smart people paid to think and get the best Canadian post-secondary education their money could buy in the hopes that I would become the next Chomskette, has. failed. the. universe.
I personally blame Steve Jobs. If his computers weren’t so impenetrable to internet viruses, I may still have a partially working brain. For losing the other half (the right hemisphere… especially the part where you process fractions), I blame the invention called “TV on DVD”. Just one more episode. Can’t stop.
Scary. I knew the answer to the Ewok question. And he also played Willow and that scary Leprechaun dude. Note: Ewok gets a red line under it.
I used to chew pens. Back when, you know, I used to write with a pen.
Something similiar I realized during my winter holidays last week (no hotspot at all! don’t they need Internet access in Austria?) – my MBP is completely useless without an internet connection. I had no idea what to do without an internet connection.
Oh where would we be with out Google?
Probobly
Er, it’s the LEFT hemisphere that does the fractions (remember it with this simple aide-mémoire: Left = Logical)
Oh, just in case your analytical hemisphere has completely, irrevocably and permanently shut down, go & look it up on the internet…
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/25200.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_hemisphere
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/irrevocably
tee hee.
Oh, and since you’re making an interesting Venn Diagram with Chimpsky and Brain Hemispheres, have you seen clip of chimps proving they are smarter than your average human? Go look at it on the beeb: http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7120000/newsid_7126100/7126174 .stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&asb=1&news=1&bbcws=1#
I’ d love to meet a women who smelt of bananas….but doesn’t choose pens.
With the world we live we need to start having pc’s doing more for us. Like sitting in front of the tv watching dvd’s all day.
bye guys
tell me about it. I’m here trying to write a paper about the design elements and principles of the opening title sequence of Casino Royale, trying to figure out how they influence the aesthetic and utilitarian functions, and all I can do is search google for answers.
And of course check out your blog.
well, and then of course I have to take a break to watch an episode of seven of Friends.
OH and I thought of one more thing – Google has invaded even more of my life, with it’s SMS and 411 services. Now if I have a brain-404, I can (pretty much anywhere) ask google my questions. …