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SUMMARY:Wolfson Debate: Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Ian Goodyer\, Anna J
 ones\, Andrew Herbert\, John Naughton & Martin Rees (Chair)
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CONTACT:Professor John Naughton
DESCRIPTION:*"Is Google Making Us Stupid?"* was the question posed by the 
 Internet commentator Nicholas Carr in _The Atlantic_ magazine in July 2008
 .  His article attracted a great deal of discussion about the extent to wh
 ich changes in our media ecosystem brought about by the Internet were chan
 ging our cognitive capacity.  Is it\, for example\, leading to shorter att
 ention spans?  Is the fact that information on virtually everything is rou
 tinely available from a powerful search engine remapping our neural circui
 try?  Are we losing the capacity to read deeply and thoughtfully simply be
 cause it has become so easy to surf the tsunami of sources and publication
 s unleashed by the Net?   This is an important question for educators and 
 learners alike – and indeed for society at large.  To explore it in dept
 h\, Wolfson has assembled a panel of experts from its members under the ch
 airmanship of the President of the Royal Society.  \n\n*Speakers:*\n\nIan 
 Goodyer\, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry\, Cambridge\n\nAnna
  Jones\, Lee Librarian\, Wolfson College\n\nAndrew Herbert\, Director\, Mi
 crosoft Research\, Cambridge\n\nJohn Naughton\, Professor of the Public Un
 derstanding of Technology\, the Open University        \n\n*Chairman:* Lor
 d Rees FRS\, President of the Royal Society\n
LOCATION:Lee Hall\, Wolfson College
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