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Nah. Technology will make the majority of the population get lazy and stupid.
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I highly doubt it.
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The answer is contained within the movie "Idiocracy"
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No. It's been my experience that people are using less of their brains than they were 20 years ago.
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Myth alert! Humans already DO use all of their brains. Very popular myth though, "psychics" are very fond of it.
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Actually humans use their entire brains, that "we only use 10%" bullshit is a myth. I got this off of a site just to show you how complicated everything we do really is "Take the simple act of pouring coffee in the morning: In walking toward the coffeepot, reaching for it, pouring the brew into the mug, even leaving extra room for cream, the occipital and parietal lobes, motor sensory and sensory motor cortices, basal ganglia, cerebellum and frontal lobes all activate. A lightning storm of neuronal activity occurs almost across the entire brain in the time span of a few seconds."
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As Richard and Tinkerbell pointed out, there's no truth to that expression. While we may only be using a small fraction at any one time, no one has found an unused, superfluous part of the brain. That's precious space, we don't have room for brains with no purpose to take up. Our infants are already born more helpless than other animals, because longer gestation would mean our heads would be too big for birth. So you might only be using 10% right now, depending on what you're doing, but you'll get around to that other 90% throughout the day.
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Somewhat related to your question, "Researchers who study intelligence say scores around the world have been increasing so fast that a high proportion of people regarded as normal at the turn of the century would be considered way below average by today's tests." - http://www.danenet.org/ncs/forumiqscores.htm So, in 100 years we'll possibly be much more intelligent if this trend continues.
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Sadly, some of us will be as dumb as we were 100 years ago from this date.
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Not at all. In fact, it's going in the other direction. Revertion to primates.
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The way Americans have been choosing their voting criteria recently, I'd say we're already set for our brains to shink 90%!
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100 years is a tiny amount of time to use on an evolutionary time scale.
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It will take a lot longer then that....
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actually the idea that we only use 10% of our brain is a myth. We use all parts of our brain, just at different times for different things.
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I believe it's more like "we only use 10% at a time" but still: I don't think we're going to get smarter as a species unless there begins to be a biological advantage to it.
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from what i can tell, most lawmakers on capitol hill and people in the bush administration haven't learned to use the first 10% yet, so even a percent or two would be a big boost...
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We use all of our brains.Some just use them better than others.
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"Humans use only 10% or less of their brain" is a common misconception: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_misconceptions_about_the_brain http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/10percent.asp http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/pdf/tenper.pdf Source: http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/4352098
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Not the ones who think we don't now.
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Yeah, the gullibility section of the brain seems to be getting more use everyday
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We use it all now.
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As people have said already, people already use that 90% of the brain.
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