It can be hard to discover just how significantly it is impacting our behaviours and thought patterns. A few years ago, I came to the scary realisation that I was outsourcing my memory to the internet. There were things that I chose not to remember because I knew I could just google them. But then I started to wonder: If I’m not using my brain to store information, what am I using it for? A few months ago, I read a book called The Shallows: How the internet is changing the way we read, think and remember by Nicholas Carr.

Source: The Edge Markets March 07, 2021 16:24 UTC