Glasbergen Cartoons by Randy Glasbergen for January 21, 2024

You can also check Merriam-"Web"ster dictionaries when needed.

Then why didn’t you Google that question?

Future generations may evolve huge thumbs for texting, and lose brain brain size down to a walnut in storage capacity. The Era of the Exo-Brain will have begun.

The google answers now…..mostly correct…….later generations will get the goggled …..goggled……far from the facts.

Believe that’s already starting/in process.

You still need to learn. Google doesn’t have all the answers.

For one thing, Google can and will give contradictory answers, answers to similar but not applicable questions, and old wives tales presented as answers.

watched a sci-fi movie like that. Everyone had instant access to all information except for one guy who’s brain would not connect to the central server. When it crashed he had to teach everyone else how to learn.

So you can tell if Google is correct.

OK Leroy what if your battery dies or you lose your cell or some bully confiscates it? What was that? Oh, confiscates, giggle it…

But what if you don’t know how to spell the words and what words to use to ask the question?

Google makes a lot of mistakes. I go to look up something and it doesn’t give me what I’m looking for. It annoys me when I ask a person and they say “Google it” because I tried that already.

There’s the real AI danger…Adolescent Intelligence.

Used properly, the Internet can be a very useful tool…take this website, for example!

Gee, thought it was… Abused Intelligence.

Because then you’re at the mercy of anyone with a keyboard….