search engines and the aging population

[firecat]

Thoughts on reading this post by jackwilliambell via supergee; the former post includes a link to this article from USA Today (warning, Firefox told me it tried to give me pop-ups):
"This is the Google side of your brain"

I find it interesting that the USA Today article doesn't make the connection between the usefulness of search engines and the aging of the population. More often than before, words and facts I used to know temporarily go missing. If I'm at my computer, I can look 'em up again.

Comments

[papersky.livejournal.com]

My friend arranish, who is in her seventies, and who has been living with memory deterioration for some time, has been using Google this way ever since there was Google and I figured out it would help. 1995? Before that she was using the thesaurus function in Protext, because if you have the almost right word, that can get you the right word. She saw her mother go down into Alzheimers, and she's such a brilliant person, and... I think it's a reasonable time in Britain and I'll phone her.

[firecat]

Thank you for sharing that with me.