Two recent articles about the impact of Google (or, more precisely, Google's way to tackle information) to:
- our mind: "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" by Nicholas Carr: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google
- science: "The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete" by Chris Anderson: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_theory (corrected by http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080625-why-the-cloud-cannot-obscure-the-scientific-method.html )
If I'm not wrong, they have not been cited in this forum. If I'm wrong, please kill this thread. :) |