Does it matter if Google is rewiring our minds? Ask Plato | Steven Poole

The debate we are now having about the effect of constant internet access on memory and creativity has precedents thousands of years oldDoes anyone know anything any more? The ease with which one can look up facts on a phone at any time is one of the wonders of the modern age. But are we becoming too reliant on it? A new study indicates, at least, that there might be a snowball effect to such reliance. The more we depend on Google for information recall, it suggests, the more we will do so in th