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

[libskrat]

Andy Clark, Natural Born Cyborgs. I recommend this book whenever discussions like this come up; it's an eye-opener. Also engagingly written, which doesn't hurt.