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To: Road Walker who wrote (861)

10/11/2016 12:45:36 PM

From: koan

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I don't look at it like that. I think it is the human species manifest destiny to involve. I think this happens all over the universe when biological systems reach our level of technology. Additionally, we have no choice, we either conquer it or we perish.

But I also think the Internet is very quickly making us smarter as a species. We know that it was the invention of the alphabet and the written word that transformed human beings from sophisticated nomadic animals, to intellectual entities discussing ethics and republics.

We also know, that the brain must have information to develop. And the more information it gets the more sophisticated it gets. The recent studies out of Stanford and Columbia show that rich kids by the age of two years old are six months ahead of poor kids. And by the time rich kids reaches five, the poor kid is only operating at an age of three.

Then they identified the variable and it was the amount of words spoken in the house. A million more words were spoken in the rich kids families. Today the kids are on their iPhones and mini pads and computers around the clock and what they're doing is processing information. Additionally, they can go to Google to instantly answer any question they could have.

And there's plenty of evidence that the millennial's are the smartest bunch of people that have ever lived on earth. To me this comports with the written language and the ability of the brain to get much smarter when it is fed adequate information.

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The next question is, what is the Internet "doing to us"? Instant ubiquitous democratic communication of ideas (and cat videos). Socially it's a little scary, here in its infant years. What'll it be like in 50, 100 years?