cogitatio

Google vs. intelegence

The End as we know it has arrived. Perhaps my cynical view is to disparaging for your tastes, but I dont think that anyone knows how to think for themselves anymore. One of my friends is a prof. and recently while grading some papers he found that one of them had been "downloaded" almost entirely from an internet source, someone elses work was plagiarized. Can people really claim ignorance, that they don't know this is wrong. Maybe our new moral standards should go something like this "if it's easy it's wrong" I am all for sharing knowledge, but for goodness sake do your own work.

When my friend first told me that he had a cheater I thought it was a random act of stupidity, yet as I sit here today two guys opposite me in this very computer lab have done exactly the same thing a quick google search has led them to an easy assignment, which if chance has her way will most likely recieve an admirable grade.

What part do we share in this easy society, how often do we limp work together in order to meet deadlines, how often do we shirk difficult projects in order to do the things we want. What role have we played in todays quick fix internet reality, and how do we fix it?

posted by Steve @ 8:43 AM