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This comic is stupid, and likely a made to farm comments and up votes, if there weren't enough curious people willing to put in effort to learn we wouldn't have advanced as much as we have today and no doubt Google makes looking things up easier, but look around you, how many people actually bother to even do that, plus it also makes it easier to find results that people can feed into their own misinformation, that they've predecided is the right answer
I thought the comic was supposed to be funny. I found it amusing. Maybe I’m just dumb lol. But I mean, I used to read the dictionary and especially the encyclopedia, go to the library, all sorts of stuff before the internet. It was fun.
I'm actually thinking about getting a full set of encyclopedias for the house so my 12 year old can use them. He just asked me as I was typing, "are moles nocturnal?" Lol.
I think it helps with spelling/critical thinking to look things up in physical books, and more importantly, I don't have to be standing over his shoulder as he looks for information, as my son just can't get the hang of internet safety yet..
He's absolutely spent time reading the dictionary, he was reading it often between ages 6-8. I thought it was super adorable the first time I saw him doing it. I consider myself pretty dumb too, but being able to seek information properly is so important; "I may not know the answer, but I can try and find it" is core critical thinking in practice.
Of course, this doesn't apply in the same way when the child/young mind is just typing the question into a chat box for an easy answer, all the while autocorrect is fixing every spelling/grammar error for them. Books man, the easiest parental control there is for learning imo
For context, this comic was made before Google changed their company motto away from, "Don't be evil". There was a sense that they might not turn evil back then and they were still giving reasonable search results based on your query.