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We rely on Google much more than is commonly understood...

Dietrich T. Schmitz * Your Linux Advocate 25th Jan

I see it being applied to all manner of different situations.

Of course, you say, that's obvious. But what isn't obvious is what or how Google is changing the wiring of our minds. How much information do we collect in our heads that needn't be if we simply forgo memorizing and get immediate feedback from a search engine?

That we have slowly become dependent on Google or other search engines to apply them in our daily lives at work, socially, what have you is both wonderful and troubling.

Is our need for information driving use of Google? Or are we making an overt choice to use it in favor of some other medium or information source, by virtue of its convenience, e.g., do I pull that reference manual out and look it up, or, shall I just 'google it'. Or did I forget what I committed to memory or needed to when Google wasn't around.

What will happen to all of these reference materials as we form new habits and transition to Googling everything under the Sun?

Thanks Chris.