Answers are what makes the world go round. Everyone loves answers because they give people gratification. Fortunately, today we have a whole database of answers. This database is more commonly known as the Internet. While the Internet is an amazing tool for research, it can negatively affect how we learn and how we get answers. Thanks to the Internet being so accessible and easy to use, knowledge and answers are constantly available. You might think that this would make our culture more intelligent, but from a certain point of view this surplus of knowledge has made our culture less intelligent. This is true because the Internet has given people the ability to gain knowledge without actually thinking. This horrible byproduct of the Internet has opened the door to many negatives. After speaking with Morristown-Beard School teacher Christian Rabin about this topic, it's clear that overindulgence with the Internet isn't always good for our brains. Searching for knowledge online has turned into a mindless activity. If you were to look at your history on an Internet browser, you would see that there would be thousands of sites open; however, it's almost guaranteed that you can't specifically remember why they opened most sites. Doing mindless research online is considered messy, and it is very easy to do online. If someone was on Facebook and clicked on another person's photo and thought it was really funny, they'd probably want to know who posted it first. As a result, they look to see whose photo it is. This is a very simple task as long as the person who likes the photo and the person who posted it are friends. The person is dying to know whose photo it is, so... halfway through the paper... he read and rewrote. This allows students to skip the hardest part of learning, which is grappling with information and making their own inferences. No one needs to speculate about topics, because the Internet does it for them. It clearly asks the question: Is the Internet a machine external to human beings or do we all create the Internet? Now you can understand why the Internet has so many negative effects on the mind. Although the Internet has given us all so much knowledge, the way this knowledge is delivered has actually made people less intelligent. One cannot imagine that the Internet can have many effects on him or her subconsciously. Some of these effects are avoidable, but if there's one thing I've learned from Rabin in the two years I've had him as a teacher, it's that it's easy to teach people, but it's hard to learn how to think...