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09-25-2009, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Nathan View Post
Are you referring to people who use the Internet to find information on only one source? Or people who cross-reference the information they find on various sites to confirm the information?

The Internet is one of the best places to obtain information from. Yes, there is a lot of fraudulent data out there, but its pretty easy to filter that out.

Without the use of the Internet, I'd say we'd all be a lot more ignorant than we are today. To say you do not respect someone who uses the Internet to obtain information comes off as quite haughty.
Internet is very convenient tool, but nothing more than a tool.
As it is not always true one who have many books or super computer is intelligent person, internet or multilingual capability would not necessarily decide people's value.

That is why professors forbid students from referring to Wikipedia for their works.
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