jd norton's List: Team B debate

This leads to a very interesting question as to the role technology plays in our life, and whether or not it is making us intellectually lazy. The brain, like every part of the body, must be stimulated intellectually or it will decay. Technology seems to be a double edged sword: the availability of information allows us to study things we never would've been exposed to otherwise, while the convenience of that technology makes us reliant on it instead of our own mental capacities. Even while I write this blog entry, I am misspelling words which I know with a simple right click I can fix in a second. Instead of focusing on spelling it correctly the first time, I'm just going to get it as close as possible and allow Microsoft Word to fix it for me. This is one of many examples of technology allowing a person to be intellectually lazy. With Google and Wikipedia so readily available and brimming with useful information, why memorize anything anymore?

over the course of the last ten years the average attention span has dropped from 12 minutes to a staggeringly short 5 minutes [Editor: Updated to 5 minutes; the infographic has an incorrect statistic].