Piece of Mind: Is the Internet Replacing Our Ability to Remember?
Thursday, July 14, 2011 - 15:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Has the Internet dumbed down society or simply become an external storage unit that enhances the human brain's memory capacity? With Google , Internet Movie Database and Wikipedia at our beck and call via smart phones, tablets and laptops, the once essential function of committing facts to memory has become little more than a flashback to flash cards. This shift is not necessarily a bad thing, nor is it irreversible, according to a team of researchers whose study on search engines and learning appears in the July 15 issue of Science . [More]