Your Brain vs. Google

Is Google more powerful than your own memory?

Think about this: I have a teacher who needs wants to know about a feature in M.S. Word, after 20 minutes of searching the Word toolbars and help documents...I finally reach for the Google.

Typing "form protection" into Google I discovered that I didn't even need to leave my own hard drive to find the answer. I've been using Google's Desktop Search tool to index the contents of my hard drive, and Google found a hit! Stored in my own help documents was an archive of my own description of how to solve this end-users problem. It was something I had written several months back. I had no memory of it. So Google's search feature gave me the best result of millions or potential hits, at the top of my list. Why even bother to try to remember what I've written about in the past? I just have to remember to Google it

No need to spell check no need to remember what I've done in the past.... this begs the question; "Are computers really helping us, or are they just making us lazy?"

Well I personally being the optomist like to believe that they are helping us, but keep in mind they also have allowed us to become a demanding, impatient, self-centered society. Sometimes we need Sunami's in our lives, just for some perspective.