Thursday, December 8, 2011

Creativity



I needed to figure out if this 2010 Ford Escape was four-wheel drive or not this morning and without even hesitation I turned to good 'ole Google. I received the answer in less than five seconds but this would not have been the case even ten years ago. I probably would have called my dad who is a car dealer and he would have probably looked it up in a book that he had or known it off the top of his head. The Internet is great for so many things but has it made us lazy and less creative? Every time I need an answer like if Syracuse has only won one NCAA Championship or who Donald Sutherland is all I have to do is slide my finger across my iPhone and the answers are literally at my fingertips. It is hard for me to imagine life without the Internet because it has been such an integrated part of my life but even when I was just in elementary school I vaguely remember having to look things up in books and do some serious research. So has the Internet really helped us or has it caused us to expect everything to come easily? Even this picture I have on my blog I found on the Internet. If I sat for a while and thought of something I am sure I could have created something on my own but why would I do that when there is so much information out there to be had? I would do anything to go back to being five again when everything was so simple....

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