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Originally Posted by Martian
One of my favourite sites on the net is Project Gutnberg, where I can read all kinds of public domain texts for free.
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Psst... manybooks.net.
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Originally Posted by Martian
I suspect Google is simply highlighting or accentuating stupidity, rather than causing it.
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Yep. This is my thought as well. It isn't that Google is causing anything; it's just providing people with access to information--a crapload of it. What one does with that is another story. There is a difference between information and knowledge; it is up to the Web user to figure that out.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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