With a simple query on Google Search, you can get answers to any question. However, the convenience of getting answers in an instant and on-demand, may be making us over-confident of our own abilities, causing us to lose sight of where our memory ends and where the internet’s begins, according to a University of Texas study. The process of searching on Google is much like searching our own memory that can lead us to confuse information. found online with information in our own heads. It could prove harmful while making medical or financial decisions, and could sway some in scientific and political views. The feeling could also affect students who may devote less time and energy to gaining knowledge. “When we’re constantly connected to knowledge, the boundaries between internal and external knowledge begin to blur and fade,” says Asst. Prof Adrian Ward “We mistake the internet’s knowledge for our own.”
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