I recently wrote an article for my company's in-house staff magazine about how Google was my favourite web site because it freed me from having to remember fact

I recently wrote an article for my company's in-house staff magazine about how Google was my favourite web site because it freed me from having to remember facts. I think it's a waste of effort to devote time to memorising mere details, when these can readily be looked up. I think it is much more sensible to remember connections between facts (i.e. to theorise and systematise based on experiences) than it is to just store the facts themselves.