English term paper

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Hi everyone,
I'm writing a term paper for my english class about how people can use computers to become smarter (and by extension not to become dumber, as some people do) but I need to have citations and notecards for everything I write.I've written most of the paper, but I'm running out of information. The last part of my paper is how computers can help different areas of thinking, and therefore different people, more than others. My theory is that AS people need to be careful to set aside time where they can focus on a few things for a long time (exercising detail-oriented thinking and single-mindedness) and ADD people should practice multitasking and shifting focus regularly (non-detasil-oriented thinking and multimindedness).
Any thoughts or sources?
Thanks.

People like me, who suffer from Googleitus, have grown to appreciate nearly infinite knowledge with only a few keystrokes.

i can recommend you to do make a distinction between 'smarter' and 'more knowledgable', as they are seperate.
knowledgable is the amount of knowledge and information you have available, which is easy to increase with the use of google, whereas smarter implies an increased ability to actually *use* that information, something that gets easier with computers, but you wont really learn instant new skills