When in thought or conversation, maybe doing a quiz or studying how much of the information is from your own personal knowledge and how much do you get from the Internet?
Do you think people knew more before the access to Internet than they do now?
And, do you see a time when all you'll need to learn is how to use a search engine?
Talking online about something is easier as you can just Google
Face to face conversation is the test of how much you really know!

For some that time has already happened many don't read books ect.. to learn cause google is just too easy....

Honestly I must say I know a heck of a lot more due to the internet then I did prior..

So no matter what the age the Internet to me can be a great thing...

Just like anything else if used in moderation...

But the knowledge is there to learn for anyone that wants to google it~~

If they take the time to read it they will retain some of the info...

Hi, yes, it is a great sauce of information, I've learnt much from it to.
I just wonder if we'll get to a point where we Google it but don't retain it?
In a way we'd use the Internet as our memory!

I agree, moderation is the key.

Hahahah I do good to remember names when introduced to others at time.. So yea there will be a lot that will google it and not retain all.... But within all that reading they would have to retain a portion of it regardless...

I have always thought the internet was a great source.. Just at times we tend to get lost within all that knowledge and fail to actually socialize on a one on one....

For me, yes and no. It was the same way in high school and college though, when it came to studying or listening in class without the internet.

If the subject is interesting to me, I retain most of what I read online. If it's not something I am all that interested in or don't fully grasp, then I don't retain it or much or it, and need to keep referring back to it.

As far as communicating with others online, I try to stay away from subjects that I have no clue about. Either that, or I say I don't really understand it. I agree with what you said about face to face interactions, they do tend to test how much you really know. I don't want to be on a date someday with someone I may have met here and be asked to expand on what I wrote about quantum physics....would be rather embarrassing if I had to excuse myself to google it.

Haha, yes, me too. You see it in some of the threads, when someone will put a heap of info from the Internet. it's good but sometimes it would be more interesting if it were there own personal knowledge!
As lu says, in moderation so we don't loose the ability to remember!

You had Internet at school!
I remember our computer club at school. It was a card about 3 inches by 6. that we punched wholes in

No, not in high school. In college, yes. I was saying that my retention level is the same as it was in school when studying from books or listening to lectures. If I am interested, it sticks with me. If not, it doesn't. It's the same as when I read stuff online.

I have learned more though because of the internet. And I do agree that moderation is more the key. There are times when even if you are really interested in it, too much can be an overload and difficult to remember all of it.

I have found the internet quite helpful at times. It is the alternative to the encyclopedia britannica or the library. Plus, it is instant information. Of course, you really have to make sure the site you are getting information from is a good site.
It has already changed she auto repair business. More people seem to go on line to see how jobs are done, and maybe do it themselves. And, we now have the Google mechanics as I like to call them. Buy some tools, and Google how to fix the problem. Some days, it seems like a waste of time to have gotten my certificate. But, there was no internet back then..

Yes, I compare it to the old mobile phones (cell ) that used to store about 20 text messages, you need to delete the stuff you don't want so it doesn't over load!

Good analogy! I like that.

#AllHailGodGoogle

Yep, down the corridor, 3rd door on the right!

Interesting concept about virtual memory.
To a degree I use the internet as a quick resource to find things I already know, or previously learned.

I read a lot.
Not dead wood books, the electronic repository of knowledge on the internet.
Sometimes I joke that I have read the entire internet, twice.
I have seen the first page of the internet and the last page of the internet. (Both are humor)

If I am discussing something and I recall a keyword or concept I use the internet to locate the details that helps me recall specific things that interested me about it.

I read a lot of scientific concepts. I frequent Google Scholar using keywords. Then I read up on the results.
I have a really good memory but search engines make it easier.

An example is Negative Mass Tachyons. http://www.tachyonmodel.com/
I have read a few papers on negative mass tachyons but don't readily recall the details. I have the keyword and can pull up the search results and recognize the webpages that I have read so I can refresh my memory. So, In a sense, Some of my memory is virtual, If if really think on it I can recall what interested me about negative mass tachyons but its just easier and faster to 'look it up'.

Sometime in the possible future we may have a need to store our memories virtually. The concepts are explored in what is called Futurism or Transcendentalism. Mind-uploading is one application of these idealisms.
http://www.minduploading.org/

A scholar is noteworthy because he knows which books to look in to find the information one seeks. The use of the internet to find the information one seeks makes all who can use it essentially a scholar.
Where one uses a card catalog or author or title to find the information, internet searchers use keywords and phrases to find that information.

Google (and other search engines) are like a scholar that knows the content of every book in every library. Even libraries that are not accredited as libraries. One only needs to understand how to access it.


Now, You ask me about setting the pressures on a hydraulic ram for a dump truck I can walk you thru it by instant recall because I have done it many times. The firing order of my favorite engine is 18436572 a 6 cyl engine is too young, too old, just right (153624). Repetition builds memory.

If I were to read the page on negative mass tachyons over and over everyday I would gain memory of it. But, I have no practical application for knowing that information so I allow my memory to be supplanted by virtual memory.

No thanks. I got #GoogleMaps

Thanks tom. Very interesting.
Do you think a clever /brainy person just has a good ability to recall information?
And is the information still in your head but you are unable to retrieve it?

No, not really. The information is still in my head but its faster and easier to search it using keywords.

Clever / brainy has nothing to do with searching keywords. The only thing you need is the keyword. You can get information on any subject even if you have no clue what the keyword means.

Example DUFF
Search DUFF and you might find reference to duff beer. The conversation you were having involved the simpsons tv show.
DUFF Beer fits the context of the keyword.

by a different context DUFF could be