332 | Your head is in the cloud

Research conducted by Betsy Sparrow, assistent professor of psychology, has identified new realities about how we process information in the Internet age. Experiments show that:

• when we don't know the answer to a question, we now think about where we can find the nearest Web connection instead of the subject of the question itself.
• when we expect to be able to find information again later on, we don't remember it as well as when we think it might become unavailable.
• the expectation that we'll be able to find information down the line leads us to form a memory not of the fact itself but of where we'll be able to find it.

Conclusion: we are becoming symbiotic with our computer tools.

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