Are Smartphones Making USupid Summary
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In the article Are Smartphones Making Us Stupid? the authors, Andrew Keen and David Weinberger, debate on how smartphones affect people's’ lives and knowledge. Smartphones are making people wrapped up in themselves, “All we are left with is more and more intimacy with our own lives and less and less knowledge of the wider world around us” (Andrew Keen). Smartphones give us instant answers letting us solve disputes faster, “The fact that we can ask a question and get an answer, wherever we are, means that our discussions can get past our disputes over facts so we can talk about the real issue: what we make of the facts” (David Weinberger). Some people say that smartphones make us stupider because they give us more chances to worry about ourselves,