Brain, Meet Google

#tbt Never before in history have we had so much information at our fingertips, to the extent that you can google an answer faster then you can recall it. After having a discussion yesterday about random access memory vs. sequential memory, it became clear that Google is a complement to our brains' natural abilities. So much in fact that the perception of your intelligence is a reflection of how resourceful your are or more directly to my point here, how adept you are to using Google Search. Often times it may even be smarter to just google the answer. The existence of websites like Let Me Google That For You, though serve to prank your friends, allude to this interesting phenomenon. Individuals in medieval times would equate our access to this vast amount of instant information to that of biblical miracles. It's great to live in 2016, hear ye!!

However a wise man once said "you can always gain insight from others, but you should never outsource your thinking." ~ Marc Andreessen

Users beware.

Posted on Jul 15, 2016

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