If you spend a lot of time on the Internet, you may think search engines are making you smarter. In fact, says PhD student Alon Sela, they’re making everybody more alike
Imagine you’re a teacher who assigns your students a report on, say, Alaska. One group of students uses only search engines. Because they’re diligent students, they don’t plagiarize Wikipedia articles, but actually visit several websites and write a report based on all the information they perused.
