Google ate our brains

CHECK out this interesting article from Wired Magazine, which says we might be remembering fewer things because we now rely on gadgets like mobile phones and online tools such as Google to store our memory, so to speak.

Here’s an excerpt:

We’re running out of memory.

I don’t mean computer memory. That stuff’s half-price at Costco these days. No, I’m talking about human memory, stored by the gray matter inside our heads. According to recent research, we’re remembering fewer and fewer basic facts these days.

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