fkusumot on 06 July 2008
I Google, therefore I may be losing the ability to concentrate
| The Web, after all, was designed by a chap (Tim Berners-Lee) who was motivated to do it because he had a poor memory for some things. Add powerful search engines to what he created and you effectively have a global memory-prosthesis. |
and another excerpt...
| The combination of powerful search facilities with the Web's facilitation of associative linking is what is eroding Carr's powers of concentration. It implicitly assigns an ever-decreasing priority to the ability to remember things in favor of the ability to search efficiently. |
The article goes into more detail. The article coincides with my own personal experience. I've always been good at constructing search queries (I used to work on databases) but I also used to have a good memory. Now I find myself coming up with keywords I need to google something instead of remembering the fact itself. Anyone else find this common?
