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Accessibility and
Creativityby Yuxi Lin
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
An observation made by the Pew
Research Center’s Internet and
American Life Project
Result
76 percent of the respondents said the Net would make us smarter
others
Asked nearly 900 tech-savvy pro-fessionals
Mental Energy Spend:
MORE in synthesizing
information and in critical thinking
LESS in memorizing
facts
How information affects creativity?
• Overall information rich environment• Inclusion of peripheral and speculative
material• Provision of interdisciplinary information
Representation of information to bring out analogies, patterns, exceptions etc.
• Emphasis on browsing facilities• Direct involvement of information user• Encouragement of informal channels• Information provision geared to individual
preferences/requirements • Appropriate use of new information
technologies
CREATIVITY
Sir Issac Newton
Johannes Kepler
Open Access to Information