The problem with that is that our brains work a lot better when it finds patterns - when it recognises things. And for that, you need to know these things. We

The problem with that is that our brains work a lot better when it finds patterns - when it recognises things. And for that, you need to know these things. We have access to a lot of knowledge at our fingers, it's true. But if the data is all stored there instead of our brains, then we won't be able to recognise that fact A (which we just read) is similar to fact B (which we read a long time but didn't bother to remember because we could just look it up anyway). The implications of that depend on the context, of course, but in a general sense, I think it'd slow our development as a species down. Exams are generally supposed to test your understanding, not your recollection abilities - with some exceptions, of course, but in general that's supposed to be what they're for.