undermine intelligence, it creates more and better opportunities
to foster it, provided only that public education is given its
proper due (it currently is not).” —Evan Hansen, editor-in-
chief, Wired, formerly leader of consumer and media coverage for
CNET News.com “Google will not just be an index of static
information, but layers of metadata about its validity,
timeliness, and context—how could that not make us smarter?”
—Anthony Townsend, director of technology development and
research director at The Institute for the Future “Google makes
us smarter because it requires us to think about the information
we encounter and make informed judgments based on new
information and lived experience, and reflect on it. Google
promotes the development of wisdom as opposed to the accretion
of data.” —Jason Nolan, assistant professor, Ryerson University,
and founding co-editor of the journal Learning Inquiry The
resources of the Internet and search engines will shift
cognitive capacities. We won’t have to remember as mu