Author Susan Jacoby debates with the audience that computers do not make us smarter and are simply tools.Susan Jacoby is the author of The Age of American Unreason. She began her writing career as a reporter for The Washington Post, and has been a contributor to a wide range of periodicals and newspapers for more than 25 years on topics including law, religion, medicine, aging, women's rights, political dissent in the Soviet Union and Russian literature.
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Computers make people smarter by allowing them to excercize their creativity more with interactive programs, and by giving them much quicker access to information on the web. I think that computers could actually make people less intelligent, however, if they spent their time doing mindless activities on it though. I guess CPU's also make social networking easier, and thereby increasing the EQ of people in general too.