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Nicholas Carr wrote about this almost two decades ago. "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-

• Turing_Machine 3y ago
  This discussion has been going on for a helluva lot longer than two decades. "And in this instance, you who are the father of letters [i.e., the Egyptian god Thoth], from a paternal love of your own children have been led to attribute to them a quality which they cannot have; for this discovery of yours [i.e., writing] will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality." Attributed to Socrates, from Phaedrus, circa 370 BC.
• anon23432343 3y ago
  Yes google is making me stupid if you ask me what the longest river in the world... People are getting worse in these kind of trivia questions... Because why should you even remember them? If all the internet shuts down then the least of your problems are trivia questions...