It seems scandalous to suggest that the internet is making us stupid. How can this be true? The internet is a cauldron of knowledge. With the right search engine, we could rapidly sift and pull out the relevant information regarding our search question or query. I use the internet everyday, and I admit I am hooked to it. One day without the internet is like a day for me without electricity.

At work, I use the internet to search for information. I pull out journal articles, read information from Google books, and if I cannot access the article, I only need to email the corresponding author. Sometimes, within a day, the author would reply my email and attached with the email is his or her paper that I had asked.

It has come to the point where I am hardly at the university library looking for journals or books. If there is a book at the library I need, I only need my research assistant to go get it for me at the library (after I searched the online library database for that book). This is in sharp contrast with my postgraduate days, where I would spend nearly everyday for a few hours at the library, sometimes just “window shopping” at the book shelves, looking for interesting book titles to pull out and read.