We have always turned towards Google for most questions on our minds. After all, in this fast-paced world, we are told to work smart rather than hard. The advancement in technology has created a material difference in both our personal and professional lives. Nearly four billion people use Google, and every second it handles a staggering number of requests for information. Google has been dominating the search engine market for many years. Therein lies the problem of diminishing the creativity of an individual.
The ease of online search and the vast information available at our fingertips has conditioned our brains to work superficially. Dependence on data has been growing. It’s a fact that as a human we tend to seek pleasure and avoid pain so, it’s no surprise that we use Google to get our answers with little or no effort. Is the present generation becoming excessively dependent on the worldwide web and degrading the creativity of their mind?
Google has changed how the human mind grasps information by impacting its cognitive side. Google offers a panoply of services that let us communicate in a variety of ways. Also, instead of being a crutch for technological development, it has made life easier by providing fast access, thus facilitating one to think beyond the mundane effort of collecting and organising data and information. Some would argue that we are raising an automated generation whose primary social contact happens online. Google has been eroding our capacity for deep and critical thinking since it does the heavy lifting. What is the price we pay for this unfettered access? We have willy-nilly surrendered control over privacy. Google feeds off the personal data that is the lifeblood of its business model.
So, with the rise of technological advancement, humans have weaned on these tools that they remain oblivious to their insidious effects.