Friday, July 15, 2011

Search Engines Change How Memory Works

"Thanks to search engines, most simple facts don’t need to be remembered. They can be accessed with a few keystrokes, plucked from ubiquitous server-stored external memory — and that may be changing how our own memories are maintained."
Wired Science | Wired.com /continue reading
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2 comments:

parlance said...

It's an interesting idea, but I doubt our brains will change so quickly. I'm hopeful that these children will still be able to access memories that are important in their daily living.

Slavenka said...

I think it already is. For example, while there was no cell phone I knew all the important phone numbers , now I don't even know my own.