We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t Know to Ask
...Curiosity puts the entire brain into a mode of heightened receptivity — not just for the specific thing you want to know, but also for everything around it. Curiosity opens a window, and while the window is open, learning deepens across the board.
But the window stays open only as long as the question remains unanswered. When an A.I. answers your search query in three seconds, the window closes before curiosity can deepen. You got what you came for, but you also lost what would have turned curiosity into learning: the adjacent article you might have read, the resulting tangent you might have followed, the connection between two ideas with no obvious relationship.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/opinion/ai-google-gemini-search-questions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wFA.QzMR.-wuQJuCT79ep&smid=url-share
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