Is Google Making Us Stupid

Question 1

Poignant

Answer 1

Adjective - Evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret.

Question 2

Prose

Answer 2

Noun - The ordinary language people use in speaking or writing.

Question 3

Wayward

Answer 3

Adjective - Opposite to what is desired or expected

Question 4

Boon

Answer 4

Noun - Something that is helpful or beneficial.

Question 5

Ubiquity

Answer 5

Noun - The fact of appearing everywhere or of being very common

Question 6

Anecdotes

“Anecdotes alone don’t prove much.”(427)

Answer 6

A brief story of something that happened in real life that is interesting.

Question 7

Algorithms

“Taylor created a set of precise instruction—an “algorithm,” we might say today—for how each worker should work.”(433)

Answer 7

Ways or techniques that can be used to solve a problem, especially by computers.

Question 8

Luddites

“Perhaps those who dismiss critics of the internet as Luddities or nostalgist will be proved correct”(438)

Answer 8

People from the 19th century that destroyed labor machines as a way to protest against machinery work.

Question 9

Sedition

“Others argued that cheaply printed books and broadsheets… spread sedition and debauchery.”(437)

Answer 9

A performance or a speech that encourages the act of rebelling.

Question 10

Staccato
“His thinking, he said, has taken “staccato” quality, reflecting the way he quickly scans short passages of text from many sources online.”(427)

Answer 10

Marked by short clear-cut playing or singing of tones or chords

Question 11

Ambiguity

“Ambiguity is not an opening for insight but a bug to be fixed.” (436)

Answer 11

doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention

Question 12

Myriad

“But, again, the doomsayers were unable to imagine the “myriad” blessings that the printed word would deliver.” (438)

Answer 12

a countless or extremely great number of people or things

Question 13

Aphorisms

“changed from arguments to aphorisms, from thoughts to puns, from rhetoric to telegram style.” (430)

Answer 13

A phrase that expresses an opinion or makes a statement of wisdom.

Question 14

Bemoan

“In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates bemoaned the development of writing.”(437)

Answer 14

Regret strongly, or to sorrow over something

Question 15

Gewgaw
“When the Net absorbs a medium, that medium is re-created in the Net’s image. It injects the medium’s content with hyperlinks, blinking ads, and other digital gewgaws.”(432)

Answer 15

to showy things that are worthless.

Question 16

Etch

“It’s not etched into our genes the way speech is.”(428)

Answer 16

to cut ( design or make a texture) engrave unto a surface,

Question 17

Attune

“ As people’s minds become attuned to the crazy quilt of Internet media.”(432)

Answer 17

adjust or accustom to, bring into harmony with. To be aware of something.