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Even As Search Becomes Omnipresent, Don't Stop Asking Questions

  • Salon, Monday, October 13, 2014 9:18 AM
It's been an ongoing debate: Do search engines make humans dumb? There are no stupid answers, only interesting questions that have not been asked. Curiosity, the feeling of not knowing, inspires the desire to learn similar to a great question that launches a series of explorations. Search wasn't intended to replace inquisitiveness. It's meant to augment knowledge and fill the gap between creativeness and cognitive processes. Smart machines and application may take over the task, but the mind must find the interesting inquiry to explore the unknown.

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