Study: why bother to remember when you can just use Google? In the age of Google and Wikipedia, an almost unlimited amount of information is available at our fingertips, and with the rise of smartphones<http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/07/28-of-us-smartphone-owners-use-them-as-primary-net-connection.ars>, many of us have nonstop access. The potential to find almost any piece of information in seconds is beneficial, but is this ability actually negatively impacting our memory? The authors of a paper that is being released by *Science Express* describe four experiments testing this. Based on their results, people are recalling information less, and instead can remember where to find the information they have forgotten. http://bit.ly/oiom6X Source: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/07/study-why-bother-to-remember-when-you-can-just-use-google.ars See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/oiom6X+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]
