just google it you fool

[Ray Zee]

it really pesses me off how it seems every time a tough question pops up people go right to google and look up an answer. what has happened to the day when we took some time and thought about it and reasoned things out. the reason things out part is gone. so i guess the future holds little in the way of the independent thinker who extracts an answer from his deductions.

nothing wrong with looking up who won the pga in 1980 or something, but to immediately go there for most any small problem cant be good.

plus just because it is on the web does not mean it is accurate or explained to the fullest, or the small points mentioned. and if its not there people think it hasnt happened.

just venting

[Anacardo]

What's got'cha down, champ?

[cbloom]

Ray, not rethinking things people have already figured out is how civilization advances. Knowledge is exponentially increasing. By the year 2050 the net will become self-aware.

[emon87]

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By the year 2050 the net will become self-aware.

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[Kramer.]

I was wondering who Ray Zee was, so I Googled it.

google zee



Apparently, he is also the inspiration for a Pete Seeger song:
here

[RacersEdge]

Ray Zee,
I completely disagree with this complaint. The web just gives quicker access to information that has always existed - just in a different medium. It just gives you facts and information, not real intelligence. You still need the thinking part to figure out how to use all this information you now have.

[JaredL]

Zee,

I think it's part of a bigger problem. Knowledge is viewed as somehow better than having the ability to think. Even in academia a fairly high percentage of successful people are very good at remembering stuff and know a lot but aren't as good at figuring stuff out.

[Ray Zee]

one problem with the just look it up syndrome is that you go that route first instead of thinking. this leads to the loss of thinking and the repetitve answer of what was found on the web. it also makes everyone equal in knowledge if that is what knowledge is.

[jokerthief]

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Ray, not rethinking things people have already figured out is how civilization advances. Knowledge is exponentially increasing. By the year 2050 the net will become self-aware.

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I think a better estimate is 2035. A really good book that looks at this issue along with advances in nanotech and biotech is "The Singularity is Near" by Ray Kurzweil. Very good book to show what may be possible with those three new frontiers.

[Dids]

Ray,

Often "just google it" is said to somebody who's already passed up trying to reason things out and is just bugging you/OOT instead.

It's not a matter of asking people to be lazy, it's a matter of getting lazy people to leave you the [censored] alone.