Therapy Matters

I have seen this mentioned elsewhere. It's neat to see some confirmation of what I had suspected. As an avid internet user, I went a week without having any access to the internet recently. I told my friend how I felt like a piece of my brain was missing. I struggled to remember certain pieces of information that I would typically just google or go to the page that it is on. It began happening so often that it actually became a problem. I hadn't noticed how often I went to the internet for information.

I'd like to see a study on how people's behavior changes when they are denied access to the internet. As a news junkie, I felt disconnected from the world. I tried watching television and reading papers but the information felt old and outdated. I'd assume for the people who use the internet to socialize, they too would have this disconnected feeling.

Of course, this information can be seen possitively and negatively. Personally, I'd much rather remember things that I couldn't just look up. Knowing that we're using the internet in this way leaves a lot of room for tech companies to create devices that center around cataloging certain pieces of information we don't want to commit directly to memory but may be useful in the future. I use my favorites in a similar fashion but that can still be quite disorganized and leaves open the possibility that the page may deleted at a later date.

“Never memorize something that you can look up.” Albert einstein.

and yes, even though I remembered that Einstein had the quote, I had to look up the exact wording on Google

Interesting phenomenon of which, when I come to think about it, I suffer too.
The question is, is that a bad thing? Is this something we should learn our children to use? Or prevent them from using it?