Summary Of Don T Fear The Cybermind By Daniel Wegner

With just a click, the internet can provide you with a vast library of information ranging from simple recipes to explanations of quantum physics. Throughout the developing and developed world, the use of the internet has grown rapidly. People use it to obtain information, entertain and socialize. The internet can be accessed through computers, phones, and tablets, making it very simple to answer any question you have. This is the reason behind the thin line between our knowledge and the internet’s knowledge that the author has coined as the cyber mind. The article “Don’t Fear the Cybermind” by Daniel M. Wegner has provided opposers of the web with a very important discussion on the idea of depending on the internet for information. As the
The information we think we know is endless due to the easy access we have to this information through the internet. What we think we know and what the internet knows are becoming almost the same thing. He explains how in group conversations someone is often confirming facts or ideas on the internet and discussing it with the others. People depend on the internet to provide them with the information they need, and when they do not have this information they are always tempted to search it. Wegner presented an experiment in the Science journal published by Betsy Sparrow, Jenny Liu and him about this specific temptation. The experiment showed that when we are asked things we do not know, our first instinct is to search the internet and not what we already know. People have said that this dependency on the web has made us less intelligent, however Wegner disagrees with this statement and says this is expanding our minds. He also adds that we never fully depended on our own minds, but on others. We have a shared memory with everyone around us, which he called transactive memory and therefore our dependence on the internet is normal, and actually