The difference is that the thinking process has become more 'externalised'. Ideas or structures are produced not so much by mental action, but by the mechanism

The difference is that the thinking process has become more 'externalised'. Ideas or structures are produced not so much by mental action, but by the mechanisms of external tools and representations. Instead of items being put together by knowing them well, they are connected by web linkage. We are being ever more subsumed into the community brain.