World-Shaker

"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."

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This sentence comes from the findings of a new study conducted by psychology professors at Columbia University, the University Of Wisconsin-Madison, and Harvard University. 

Essentially, the study asserts that internet search is destroying our “internal memory.”

Google Search And Memory

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    This is not surprising! When technology changes, new skills always replace old ones. Example: before calculators...

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    Not to be all herp a derp but when you think about it, this phenomenon is just a continuation of human’s evolution in...

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    University of Wisconsin-Madison :o

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    Interesting. Not sure I completely agree that our internal memory is being destroyed to a huge degree.

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