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#105 - Is Smart Technology Making Us Dumb?

Open to Debate

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The Pros and Cons of Smart Technology

The motion is this smart technology is making us dumb. The team arguing against the motion Genevieve Bell and David Weinberger argue that thanks to smart technology We are living in a renaissance of knowledge. They hail the fact that the gatekeepers of knowledge are on the run and possibly in some cases dead. Nick Car David Weinberger said that skimming is good And he said we do it naturally we go into libraries and we skim and we we select very quickly. Until it's been squared US debates move on to round two, where the debater addressed one another directly and take questions from me and from you.

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