If you think your memory has fallen off a cliff over the past ten years or so, it might not be memory loss due to aging. It might be due to the way Google restructures how our brains archive knowledge.
Why bother storing a voluminous amount of knowledge in our gray matter when we can instead remember a search query to pull the same information at a later date?
Read the rest and see the infographic at Business Insider
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