"Back in 2004, I asked [Google founders] Page and Brin what they saw as the future of Google search. 'It will be included in people's brains,' said Page. 'When you think about something and don't really know much about it, you will automatically get information.'
'That's true,' said Brin. 'Ultimately I view Google as a way to augment your brain with the knowledge of the world. Right now you go into your computer and type a phrase, but you can imagine that it could be easier in the future, that you can have just devices you talk into, or you can have computers that pay attention to what's going on around them and suggest useful information.'
'Somebody introduces themselves to you, and your watch goes to your web page,' said Page. 'Or if you met this person two years ago, this is what they said to you... Eventually you'll have the implant, where if you think about a fact, it will just tell you the answer."
The way we learn and work now may be more efficient than ever, but those lessons don't necessarily stick as well as they used to. People are replacing their own thoughts and intuition with findings on google and other sources as our primary views on the world. Filter bubbles are taking the openness out of the world. Instead of a vast array of seemingly unlimited views on something, technology is taking the humanity out of exploration. We as a generation are ushering a world dependent on technology, instead of using trial and error and finding things out for yourself. Technology is the best and worst thing to happen to us, so it is up to us as a generation to control how we see the internet.
