Are information-retrieval tools like google set to diminish human memory?

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I have an astoundingly accurate memory for obscure details, but then again, there isn't much else up there.

― Mandee, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Crutchlike reliance on technology = more room in branes for actually important things.

― Josh, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

historically, reliance on writing and books = start of precipitate decline in ability to remember or think => swift close to promising human civilisation => domination by 12-foot lizard ppl = descendents of william caxton DO YOU SEE!!

― mark s, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Don't care. Gimme eat. As Mr. --- de Coverley put it.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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