- Tonight, is technology making us
smarter or dumber?
I'm Carlos Watson and this is Point Taken.
- Well, complacency is a big part of it.
A lot of us believe that if we read it on the Internet
it must be true and we don't go any further.
We don't engage critical thinking.
- During this elections season
have you watched the people that disagree with you
slowly disappear from your feed?
Because Google and Facebook and Apple and everybody
want to give you things you're interested in.
Which is another way of saying protecting you
from things that might challenge you.
- I think there's no doubt that technology
can do that and algorithms can
push us into directions where we are only seeing
voices that we agree with,
but I think that you you're right.
That people are rebelling against that,
and that just goes to show that technology
is what we make of it.
- As a person on color it has really opened up
the communities that work with
in their abilities to connect with others.
Now because of cell phones those same communities
have access to information.
The same information we all have access to here.