Brain Drain

Wired, the magazine, carried an item on whether the ready availability of online memory - with services such as Google, or mobile phones, was making our own brains less retentive. Why would we need to "remember" things if we can easily look them up? And according to research by neuroscientist Ian Robertson who polled 3000 people - we are less able to remember some things. I know this is so for me - I often forget my own mobile number and I certainly don't have even S's work phone number committed to memory. The lack of retention - or ever trying to remember/recall - is more pronounced in younger people.