I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers. They just go and look it up or they just chat with someone. In other words, relying on something rather than saying: "Okay, I've got the information, how do I create value from it?"

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers. They just go and look it up or they just chat with someone. In other words, relying on something rather than saying: "Okay, I've got the information, how do I create value from it?"" in the context of "When asked "Have we become too reliant on computers?", in "Deep thought" by Hamish Mackintosh, in The Guardian (23 September 1999)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.