Were our grandparents wiser than us? [EN/PT]
Nowadays, knowledge is in the palm of our hands. Cell phones and access to the internet are true gateways to information, something that would have been unimaginable in the past. With just a few clicks and the right words in searches, or even with the help of artificial intelligence, there is practically nothing that a human being cannot know. But with so much information available, could we say that this is the most intelligent generation that has ever walked the earth?
“Intelligent” is a strong word for this kind of subject. It's true that we have easier access to information, all gathered in one place, compared to the methods of the past, when it was necessary to identify a specific book or article in order to extract the desired information. Despite having all this at our fingertips, it's hard to point to this generation and say that we are the smartest. More access to knowledge, yes, but intelligent? I don't think so.
There are many ways of distinguishing intelligence, and it is not always associated with a person's level of education. Today, someone who has access to so much information wouldn't necessarily be more intelligent than a farmer who never went to school but has spent his whole life cultivating the land, understanding the best times to plant, the best grains or how to plow the soil properly. Even with all the technology at your disposal, you would hardly have the same level of practical intelligence as someone who has learned throughout their life, with knowledge passed down from generation to generation, without ever being recorded in a scientific article. As I once heard: “Knowledge is dispersed throughout society”, and not everything, despite what we think, is on the internet.
If the comparison could be made between this generation and past ones, yes, we have great advantages in many respects thanks to the blessed access to information provided by technology. But are we making the most of it or are we wasting time with distractions that “come as standard”? Just as knowledge is available, irrelevant content and distractions are also everywhere. Tell me: how many hours of your day today were spent learning something on the internet compared to time spent on social media or watching funny videos? The answer might give you an idea of what I mean.
I, like many people aged 30 and over, know exactly what life was like without the internet and what it is like with the internet. Perhaps we are the only generation in history that can make this comparison based on our own life experience. I realize that before, people were smarter in their own way, knew how to solve everyday problems, socialize better and even enjoy life more. Today, people know how to do a lot of things based on tutorials, and that's a good thing, but imagine if a collapse happened? Wouldn't we regress to the point where we no longer knew how to do anything without a guide?
Of course, comparisons of this kind are too complex to be summed up in a few words. Each generation has knowledge appropriate to its time, developing intelligence and cleverness according to the conditions of the time. I can't say that this is the most intelligent generation compared to our ancestors, even if some think so. But it is certainly the generation with the best opportunities to expand its horizons.
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É fato que, nos dias de hoje, o conhecimento está na palma de nossas mãos. Celulares e o acesso à internet são verdadeiras portas para a informação, algo que, antigamente, seria até mesmo inimaginável. Com apenas alguns cliques e as palavras certas nas buscas, ou mesmo com o auxílio da inteligência artificial, não existe praticamente nada que um ser humano não possa saber. Mas, com tanta informação disponível, poderíamos dizer que esta é a geração mais inteligente que já passou pela Terra?
"Inteligente" é uma palavra forte para esse tipo de assunto. É certo que temos mais facilidade de acesso às informações, tudo reunido em um só lugar, se comparado aos métodos do passado, quando era necessário identificar um livro ou um artigo específico para, só então, extrair a informação desejada. Apesar de termos tudo isso ao nosso alcance, é difícil apontar para esta geração e afirmar que somos a mais inteligente. Mais providos de acesso ao conhecimento, sim, mas inteligentes? Não acredito que seja o caso.
Existem muitas maneiras de distinguir a inteligência, e ela nem sempre está associada ao nível de estudo de uma pessoa. Hoje, quem tem acesso a tantas informações não seria, necessariamente, mais inteligente que um agricultor que nunca foi à escola, mas passou a vida toda cultivando a terra, entendendo quais são as melhores épocas para o plantio, quais são os melhores grãos ou como arar o solo da forma adequada. Mesmo com toda a tecnologia a seu favor, dificilmente você teria o mesmo nível de inteligência prática de alguém que aprendeu ao longo da vida, com conhecimento passado de geração em geração, sem nunca ter sido registrado em um artigo científico. Como ouvi uma vez: "O conhecimento está disperso pela sociedade", e nem tudo, apesar do que pensamos, está na internet.
Se a comparação pudesse ser feita entre esta geração e as passadas, sim, temos grandes vantagens em muitos aspectos graças ao abençoado acesso à informação proporcionado pela tecnologia. Mas será que estamos aproveitando isso ao máximo ou estamos desperdiçando tempo com distrações que "vêm inclusas nesse pacote"? Da mesma forma que o conhecimento está disponível, conteúdos irrelevantes e distrações também estão por toda parte. Me diga: quantas horas do seu dia hoje foram gastas aprendendo algo na internet em comparação ao tempo passado em redes sociais ou assistindo a vídeos engraçados? A resposta pode lhe dar uma ideia do que estou querendo dizer.
Eu, assim como muitos que têm 30 anos ou mais, sei exatamente como era a vida sem internet e como é com internet. Talvez sejamos a única geração na história que pode fazer essa comparação com base na própria experiência de vida. Percebo que, antes, as pessoas eram mais inteligentes à sua maneira, sabiam resolver problemas cotidianos, socializar melhor e até mesmo aproveitar mais a vida. Hoje, as pessoas sabem fazer muitas coisas baseadas em tutoriais, e isso é positivo, mas imagine se um colapso acontecer... Será que não retrocederíamos ao ponto de não saber mais como fazer nada sem um guia?
Claro, comparações desse tipo são complexas demais para serem resumidas em poucas palavras. Cada geração possui um conhecimento adequado ao seu tempo, desenvolvendo inteligência e esperteza de acordo com as condições da época. Não posso afirmar que esta é a geração mais inteligente em comparação aos nossos antepassados, mesmo que alguns pensem assim. Mas, com certeza, é a geração com as melhores oportunidades para expandir os próprios horizontes.
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Sure we have information at fingertips but how do we know we are getting all the information on that topic.
With a book they put it all in one place and it is hard for government to censor what is in there. An author doesn't need to worry about a page getting taken down. All you have to worry about is how hard it is to get published and will it survive a book burning (Most do because its hard to burn them all). A book publisher is the only one that can censor you and if you don't want to be censored all you got to do is publish it yourself. And to avoid biasness you just need to read another book.
With the internet you are relying on the search engine to not hiding something. How do you know you asked the right question? Is there politics preventing you from getting a key piece of information? Is the search engine or website an echo chamber of biasness?
With a book there is less questions on whether or not you got all the information but with the internet there is to many questions that most wont ask themselves. The ones who are intelligent will ask those questions and not limit themselves to the internet.
There are other factors involved. Not that books aren't essential, but the dynamic is different; it's harder to find information, and a 20-year-old book will address a topic in the way the world was back then. The world is constantly changing, and certain types of information need to be updated. Of course, not everything on the internet is viable, but even books could be found there. The big question is how the current generation deals with so much accessibility but, at the same time, so many distractions from what's truly essential.
Yes there is multiple factors involved. One of those factors is politics. You might just find more information from a book that is 50 years old because it was more acceptable to talk about back then but the topic is controversial now. Which leads to information being hidden that might be useful. I struggle to find information on my Blood type. There may be multiple reasons why I can't find it (genetic selection, eugenics, WW2, lack of information, medical practices that haven't been caught up with knowledge, regulation, etc.).
Here is an example in the book Human Heredity and Birth Defects by E. Peter Volpe Published 1971 First Edition
On page 132-133 You can find
I agree information needs to be updated. Not every book can be found online freely, that is why a library is still needed to this day. Do you want to pay for a PDF just to read an article out of it? I sure don't. But here's the link to the book regardless Human Hereditary and Birth Defects
At the time of my son's birth I had a false period. I didn't know I was pregnant until I was 2 1/2 - 3 month and by that time, I may not have been able to get the RhoGAM shot because I was already producing antibodies just not enough to kill my child. They only test you when you are pregnant or giving blood. They don't tell you when you are born, if they did I may have made better choices and took less risks. There was no regulation in place for giving the RhoGAM shot when my child was born and it's not required for them to inform you of your blood type. Too this day if you want to know your blood type you have to donate blood. Alberta Prenatal Screening Program for Selected Communicable Diseases page 9
I didn't know my blood type until I had my second pregnancy and that meant nothing to me at the time. I only knew about the incompatibly to blood transfusions. I didn't know I was high risk and that my bloods antibodies could harm the child inside me until 15 years later when I came across a YouTube video explaining why I couldn't carry a child to term. To this day no doctor has talked to me about my blood type. This statement could be the reason why.
But it's not 100% accurate because genetics are not cut and dry, they very complex and can have a different outcome depending if the are dominant or recessive genes and most of all how many people in the area have that gene.
How is it that the O blood type is a recessive gene and yet it is the most common blood type?
Why I bring this up is because when when I look up my blood type I have a had time finding anything about how my blood type effects my body. And they can't make up there mind if I have a better or worse health outcome. There is not a lot of studies on my blood type or they are hidden. That book helped me in asking the right questions to find information that I would not otherwise. My family has Marfan's Syndrome and all I can find for connection to my blood type is A suggestion of linkage between the Marfan syndrome and the rhesus blood group and that the collagen diseases such as Marfan syndrome can cause abdominal aortic aneurysms but because I am type A Rh-negative blood group I have a decreased incidence of abdominal aortic aneurysms. It took me a long time to find this article Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms There is so little know about my genetics that I cannot go to General Practitioner to get tests done because they have no clue what tests need to be done and a specialist is hard to find.
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Bzzzrrr, respeito pelas anças, Michupa! Eu acho que a sabedoria não é necessariamente medida por tempo de vida nem pela acesso a informações. Intuição, experiência e conhecimento prático também são importantes. #hivebr
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I can compare science in the past with the present, if you ask me, of course I will answer that people in the past were much smarter than people today, because the people of the past were not discouraged in pursuing knowledge or seeking information even though they had to struggle with many limitations
Easy to get information, sometimes many abuse it in today's times.
Exactly, the world seemed to have a different conception of living and seeking knowledge, which today is not as eager.
Se acabar o YouTube, tá todo mundo ferrado sem tutorial pra qualquer coisa que imaginar kkkk
todo mundo volta pra era das cavernas haha
As pessoas hoje em dia não se querem esforçar para buscar o conhecimento, já que tudo o que precisam muitas das vezes basta pesquisar na internet, mas para mim muito melhor é a pessoa ir em busca desse conhecimento presencialmente, ser a pessoa a procurar pelos seus meios esse conhecimento, por isso é que apesar de quando eu quero saber algo pesquiso na internet mas muitas das vezes vou a uma biblioteca, e leio muito, porque acho que esse contacto presencial com uma das maiores fontes de conhecimento que são os livros deve de ser presencialmente, a tocar-lhes a folhear e a absorver o seu conteúdo, e não apenas atrás de um computador, telemóvel ou tablet.
conhecimento se adquire no decorrer do tempo. É certo que a tecnologia ajuda, mas aspessoas estão acostumadas a tudo rápido
É verdade amigo,as pessoas hoje em dia querem tudo depressa mas ha muitas coisas que levam o seu tempo.
I enjoyed reading this post, each generation has what makes them stand out, but in terms of technology and access to easy knowledge I give it to this era, we see everything on a platter of gold.
Thanks!
Hello my friend, this summarizes your pos
Intelligence is how people today use all that information available in their favor, and I assure you that an amazing and alarming majority, waste that great opportunity it has. You just have to ask anyone as you take advantage of the Internet today and you will give you accounts that will tell you that only for entertainment, watch movies and watch memes ...
The future is unfortunate where we go, with people unable to have a critical thinking capacity, to investigate, reason and prove how they did previously when these networks did not exist.
Exactly, there's a lack of "knowledge" to filter what's truly worth it and what isn't. Unfortunately, we might be heading towards a future of people being alienated and without true knowledge.
você falando sobre com ou sem internet, lembro que quando tive meu primeiro celular foi o samsung light, a propaganda era que passava por debaixo da porta kkk mas voltando ao texto, acredito que como você disse, cada geração tem uma forma de adquirir e transmitir seus conhecimentos.
Cada geração é unica em seus próprios conhecimetos, devemso sempre lembrar disso
Concordo totalmente! Cada geração tem ferramentas diferentes para o aprendizado
With the glut of information now at our disposal, we may find ourselves doing too much whereas just a little bit will solve a problem.
Also, social media has come around looking like a wonderful thing but the amount of time we lose over there is way more than what we gain from it.
The big problem for me is in social media. We have so much information at our disposal, but at the same time, the distractions prevent us from making progress.
Well said! Access to information doesn’t automatically make us more intelligent. true wisdom comes from experience and understanding.
Exactly!
De fato, somos a última geração do antes e o depois do boom da internet e de outras tecnologias. Lembro que pouca gente tinha acesso ao computador por exemplo e olha como estamos hoje?
Pois é, os útimo a se lembrar de como era vida sem ter internet e tanta informação!