I think of it as my own RAM. Search used to be quite slow and you had to have knowledge stored in your RAM to be proficient. Memory was valued but you also had

I think of it as my own RAM. Search used to be quite slow and you had to have knowledge stored in your RAM to be proficient. Memory was valued but you also had to deal with human limitations. Fast forward to today and search can be done quite a bit faster. And your internal RAM effectively multiplied or perhaps your storage (SSD) became faster and bigger. In that sense what’s become more valuable is not necessarily how much information you can physically retain in your brain/memory but how FAST and EFFECTIVELY you can look up things.