Summary Of Look Up On The Internet By Daniel Wegner

In this article written by Daniel M. Wegner, the author speaks of a new age problem in which people are now losing connection with each other due to the fact that the internet is easier to look something up on the internet than finding a friend that knows the information that they are looking for. Throughout the article, it gave examples of different studies that compared the people that had knowledge of a topic to those that had to look up the topic. The results were that the people that looked it up did worse than the people that didn’t use the internet, but they reported feeling smarter despite not knowing that they did worse. The author states that with the rapid growth in technology that it has begun to” blur the lines between mind and
machine”. Finally, the author wraps up the article by separating it into three categories remember, the internet, and being online all the time. This is in representation that we don’t have the need to remember more and that we can just look it up on the internet, plus the fact that people are online most of the time.