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Information

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

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