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Is internet making us smarter ?

By technological or lifestyle means internet has been fundamental to its development. Simply a click and information floods in your screen. According to the latest online research interviewing 900 scientists, consultants, business leaders, writers, technology developers and internet users by Reuters (2010), majority of them agreed that internet has an indispensible place on improving reading, writing and rendering of knowledge. 3 out of 4 experts in the study said internet enhances human intelligence.

Yet there has been argument of the use of internet on improving our IQ. Nicholas Carr, as a technology writer, attributes there is positive relationship between use of internet and people's stupidity. "What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence and more toward what might be called a utilitarian intelligenc ..... Chipping away users' capacity for deep thinking or concentration," Carr said in a release accompanying the study - 'Is google making us stupid ? '. "The price of zipping among lots of bits of information is a loss of depth in our thinking." declared Carr.