Good or bad

The flow of information now became tremendous, stunning, better then ever before and still rapidly growing. But the more i think about it the more i doubt if it is actually good or bad.

To begin with, now that i am in Russia for a month or so searching for my internship and dealing with some bureaucracy, i've decided to work for a bit in the Coffeeshop. For now it is even better then i expected(we'll see how it is when i start working for real),and i got a unique chance to be around our new growing generaton - it's not that I consider myself old, but i have to admit that i have at least 4 years difference with almost all the others in the new recruitment ;)  I was actually amazed by that group of people i've met on the training - almost all of them are girls and have started working at ! 15 0_o . But, not about this now.

In our schools and universities on certain subjects in the end of the semester or in the middle you need to make a written work on a certain topic and then present it to the teacher. Internet is a great thing -yes, and when i was in the university we also were downloading everything from there, but at least changing some aspects, reading it, adding smth new, and then it totally worked. But now this 18 year old girl is telling me how two of them dowloaded the same work, didn't even read it at home and started to read it for the teacher one after another. The teacher got a bit confused kind of noticing that they are similar, but put both of them excellent marks. And the girl is saying "he is a good teacher".

I don't want to complain, i did similar things, but it is quite sad to watch how the technology instead of enchancing learning and making us smarter actually makes things so accessible that you don't have to try so hard. To write a work like that Our parents would go to the library and spend there at least couple of days, digest all the information and put it together with their own words, and sure enough it would stay in their heads and make it easier to remember things further. And now? We can get to know anything we want in one second through the Iphone (and that's amazing!) but unfortunately one hour later most of us don't even remember what we've just learned, because we know that this information is always available.
It kind of makes you think less, cuz all the answers can be found online easily.

But of course that is only one of the side effects, there are good things to that too: education became more available, sometimes you just need to have a computer with internet and you can learn anything; you can virtually travel the world and see any place without having millions; you can get inspired so easily going through different things people created and then make smth on your own. I jut really wish people look at this gift that we have, as a tool to grow and develop, not just an easy source of entertainment and a way to handle your semester university work in 5 minutes.