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Oh i agree with both of these responses. It's not that google is a bad thing, personally i laugh at how we used to have a wall of books to run to. It's more o

• Jtsummers 11y ago
  Yeah, that's definitely a problem. I kind of miss the wall of books, though. Though I came in at the tail end of that era (more while I was still in school than after). I get a better understanding for things when I have a physical resource to go to. It helps that I (apparently) have an above average memory, but it works mostly by associating the physical act with the information I learned (I remember notes by recalling literally writing them on the page, for instance). So books seem to be more effective for conveying information to me in a retainable way, and I imagine that I'm not unique. That many of my colleagues with "terrible" memories are really just suffering from using the wrong resources to learn subjects, something about the computer screen as information source seems to stick less for people. My pet theory: The lack of other senses involved. A book has smell, texture, and then the physical act of turning pages. A lecturer versus a video, the lecture hall at least has a smell and feel to it, and there's more variation, less polish, on a live lecture compared to a video that's been thoroughly edited.