Skinner's Machines Influence How Much We Think?

In his quote, Skinner is making the argument that men are no longer finding things out for themselves, and are instead relying on machines to think for them. At this moment there are many technologists who are working on computers that are smarter or can hold more memory. The purpose of these improved machines are to make it easier for men and women to figure out problems and do computations. Now people can just press a few buttons on a compact screen to find what they want to learn. It is taking less brain power now then ever to “think.” I don’t think that Skinner is being particularly critical of technology, but is more accusing of men, although he does recognize how tech does influence how much we think by acknowledging its increasing intelligence. Skinner is basically saying that it doesn’t really matter how much a machine thinks, but if men think along …show more content…
He is critical of man for finding more and more ways to get things done easier when it is more efficient to use human knowledge and balance it out with artificial intelligence, since of course machines can calculate and bring up memory better than man, but man knows more and can think in longer