Clive Thompson, author of Smarter than You Think, has claimed that technologies have made people smarter. In Smarter than You Think, Thompson shows that chess players has used chess software to increase their overall tactics and made more young chess players to become grand masters (Thompson 359). In other words, Thompson thinks that technology, the chess software, has made chess players smarter. However, people are over reliant on the technologies, which cause them to lose their ability to generate ideas. One of the most famous examples is the chess master Christoph Natsidis got caught using a mobile phone illegally during a chess contest (357). Christoph was over reliant on chess software in his daily practices, which causes him to lose his ability to think by himself. Currently, humans were over reliant on technologies, which make them stupid because they lose the ability to thinking by their
Clive Thompson, author of Smarter than You Think, has claimed that technologies have made people smarter. In Smarter than You Think, Thompson shows that chess players has used chess software to increase their overall tactics and made more young chess players to become grand masters (Thompson 359). In other words, Thompson thinks that technology, the chess software, has made chess players smarter. However, people are over reliant on the technologies, which cause them to lose their ability to generate ideas. One of the most famous examples is the chess master Christoph Natsidis got caught using a mobile phone illegally during a chess contest (357). Christoph was over reliant on chess software in his daily practices, which causes him to lose his ability to think by himself. Currently, humans were over reliant on technologies, which make them stupid because they lose the ability to thinking by their