Does it make me smart if I can answer any question you have within thirty seconds? I would have to say that if anyone could to that then yes, they are smart. If you can learn about and memorize everything that anyone would want to know, then there is no denying that you are a smart, smart individual. Maybe not the most socially inclined person out there, but clever none the less. But what if I could access an unlimited information source, search it, and regurgitate the answer to any question all within thirty seconds? Would that make me as smart as that ivory tower egghead who memorized everything? I don’t think so. It is true that it is better to “work smart, not hard”, but there is something to be said for a brain that can absorb and hold information as opposed to one that can only research and throw up answers at you. Some one who can learn and reason has a stronger mind than someone who can only tell you something that they recently read about. My enormous database of information is only masking my lazy little idiot mind. Even though the pocket-protected egghead and I can give you the same information in the same amount of time, his intellect is real, while mine is a farce. He is genuinely smart. He would be smart with or without technology. I would be S.O.L. without my handy dandy information machine. Having that argument made, I think that employers should implement an aptitude test when looking at potential employees. Anyone can BS their way through an application and resume. Not everyone can have a natural knack for a profession or an IQ high enough to accommodate learning the business quickly and thoroughly.
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