Is the Internet Making Us Smarter?

Julian Zelizer: I wanted to ask you about your earlier book, which is called smarter than you think it came out about five years ago. The thesis was basically that the Internet is making us smarter in the sense of acting like this kind of auxiliary brain and enabling collaborative learning. He says he still agrees with the book but didn't make any moral argument against its conclusions. Zelizer: One of the problems we have when you look online right now is that some absolutely terrible people have become incredibly good at coordinating their activities.