Here’s How Google Search Is Destroying Our Memory
“We are becoming symbiotic with our computer tools, growing into interconnected systems that remember less by knowing information than by knowing where the information can be found.”
”It may be no more that nostalgia at this point, however, to wish we were less dependent on our gadgets,” the study concludes. Perhaps relying on external memory isn’t such a bad thing—unless your smartphone runs out of battery, that is
Full infographic: http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2011/09/19/google-and-your-memory/
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-search-is-destroying-our-memory-but-is-that-such-a-bad-thing-2012-1#ixzz1kJtlFJ2z
Read more: http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~wegner/pdfs/science.1207745.full.pdf
