Does technology impoverish the mind?

by Ben Hughes

Technology isn't the beast that some people like to make it out to be, but it isn't a saint either. In fact, maybe it's better not to blame technology at all but to hold ourselv...read more

by Elitehacker

Technology absolutely does not impoverish the mind; to even suggest that it does, is just ludicrous. The progress of technology can be used as a gauge of the progress of our soc...read more

by Nicholas Davis

It is impossible to speak of technology apart from the creators and the consumers. It is important to note that individuals create and use things in different ways for different...read more

by Michelle Martini

The fact that we are engaging in such a debate may suggest that technology does the opposite of impoverishing the mind. In fact, many advances in technology are for the benefit ...read more

by Leigh Goessl

Technology does not impoverish the mind. The fact we allow technology to "think" for us could easily be perceived as impoverishment to the mind, but it does not weaken the mind ...read more

by Stanley W. Shura

There is nothing of this world, or "out of this world" that can impoverish any mind which isn't already so unfortunately disposed. And the only condition that I can fathom woul...read more

by PatrickB

Does technology impoverish the mind? This can best be answered with the question: "Why are you reading this right now?" Certainly the Internet (which is the current shining b...read more

by Barbara Guess

Without technology our lives would be primitive and filled with hard manual work, struggling to provide food and shelter for our families. Our minds would have to focus on survi...read more

by Raven Lebeau

As a child, I was labeled as "gifted". (Sad violin music begins to play.) Now, thanks to spell check, I never have my i's and e's in the right order when I have to write some...read more

by Patricia Faulhaber

Technology impoverishing our minds? Where do we get these ideas? I am astonished that people still believe that calculators destroy our children's ability to do math. Math skill...read more

by Laura Hogan

The human mind was designed with one overall arching theme, the same theme that is found in the unintelligent design of all living things, efficiency. Our minds work to understa...read more

by Seth Keipper

While there may be some immediately noticeable drawbacks to modern society and youth in particular technology is not a causal factor. Let's face it. Every generation has confl...read more

by John Graham

To some extent technology does impoverish minds and I'll offer two examples before arguing the opposite, that technology does not impoverish minds. First, consider the checko...read more

by Ernest Capraro

Thousands of years ago, medical lore, history, and all knowledge was passed from one generation to the next by word of mouth. The people who maintained this knowledge had to ha...read more

by Erich Strebe

Technology is the ultimate human expression of creative innovation. From its earliest manifestations as stone hammers and fire-starters to modern-day telecommunications and spac...read more

by Minh Tran

It is notable that this debate on whether technology impoverishes the mind takes place on the cyberspace. We participants can come from anywhere on Earth where the Internet is a...read more

by Timothy Justice

Does technology impoverish the mind? An interesting question, considering that I am typing this on a computer and you are likely reading it on the same. As technology grows, ...read more

by Kathleen Ray

If a person where to think just a little about this question, they might say yes. I mean whos kid hasn't tried to do their math with a calculator, or used spell check to check ...read more

by Two one three four six six

In the universe things often fall into the same pattern as that old mystical concept of the yin and yang - a large area of zero and a small area of one, if you're a programmer o...read more

by Todd Pheifer

Some people love technology so much that it can be an addiction. Cell phones, text messaging, Internet surfing, and television watching are regular practices in our daily lives...read more