Your Technology Use Is Making You Stupid—Here’s How

The reason you can’t recall

Plugging random stuff into Google can produce hilarious results. And what’s not to like about the convenience? Well, with pretty much all the information you’d ever need or want at your fingertips, the Internet is changing the way your brain works, according to some fascinating research from Columbia University professor Betsy Sparrow, PhD, published in Science journal. By acting as a personal memory bank, search engines are making you better at remembering how and where to find information, but worse at remembering the actual information itself.