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    #1. A recent study (you've probably forgotten it by now) suggests 90 per cent of us are suffering from digital amnesia. More than 70 per cent of people don't know their children's phone numbers by heart, and 49 per cent have not memorized their partner's number. While those of us who grew up in a landline-only world may also remember friends' home numbers from that era, we are unlikely to know their current mobiles, as our phones do the job. The Kaspersky Lab concludes we don't commit data to memory because of the "Google Effect" – we're safe in the knowledge that answers are just a click away, and are happy to treat the web like an extension to our own memory.

#2    "There were 3.5 million searches in 1998, now, there are 4.7 trillion search queries everyday.1 When something changes our lifestyle so monumentally, you can bet it’s changing us as well"

#3    "As the “Look up or Learn” data suggest, the older age group shows a stronger tendency for ‘looking up’ information as compared to the younger age group for ‘learning’. This finding may be due to population differences – the young age group is entirely made up of undergraduate students whose purpose it is to learn, therefore making them more inclined to answer as such."

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Reference:

1-Genevieve Roberts,  The Independent, http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-

tech/features/google-effect-is-technology-making-us-stupid-10391564.html

2. -How the Internet is Changing Your Brain - Academic Earth,  Academic Earth 

RSS,  http://academicearth.org/electives/internet-changing-your-brain/

3. - GENERATION AND THE GOOGLE EFFECT: TRANSACTIVE MEMORY SYSTEM PREFERENCE ACROSS AGE , Jessica Siler    http://etd.fcla.edu/CF/CFH0004473/Siler_Jessica_B_201308_BS.pdf

4. - THE RISE AND IMPACT OF DIGITAL AMNESIA - Kaspersky Lab
https://kasperskycontenthub.com/usa/files/2015/06/Digital-Amnesia-Report.pdf

5. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3515809/Digital-amnesia-GOOD-thing-Relying-phones-remember-everyday-things-frees-brains-creative.html