Is the Internet replacing our own memory?

[Paul Mackin]

On 7/15/2011 10:14 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:
> http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/14/is-the-internet-replacing-our-own-memory/
>
> Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information
> at Our Fingertips
>
> http://www.sciencemag.org/​content/early/2011/07/13/s​cience.1207745
>
> ... I've already had to google for the word "amnesia" ("memory loss"?)
> this year, so ...
>
I meant to comment on this earlier but forgot.

When I first saw that Google and the Internet were affecting memory I 
thought O my God, Memory Loss.

But fortunately the research is only about memory utilization, not 
memory loss.

Or is that a distinction without a difference?

P