I am not sure why they call it Google effect, when it can be called generically "library" effect. It's the adaptation of our brain to store externally certain d

I am not sure why they call it Google effect, when it can be called generically "library" effect. It's the adaptation of our brain to store externally certain data, generally speaking. What it means: our brains should be used to process and derive from raw data and not hold the raw data, as well as the pointers to the certain not important ( read: life esentials) processes or data. Once you learn how to find ( in a library, or google, or whatever ), you can offload your brain with remembering stuff that you know how to reach it in a matter of seconds ( or any other useful time unit ). On the other hand, own survival insticts will help us learn and remember without any books what to do in certain dangerous or life-threatening situations. This doesn't exclude that you may die from stupidity :). This is nothing new, and the purposless of learning a poem while in school seems to me now even greater. At the oposite, stays my techical university where all the exams were open to documentation on table, and encouraged to use them while in exams. I guess, for me, searching in google is a natural extension to this.