Google is The Easy Way Out

  Could the frequent use of Google and other search engines be reducing our IQ? In a response to an article written by Nicholas Carr and Jamais Cascio in the Atlantic Monthly, researchers from Columbia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Harvard conducted a study which showed that people are less likely to work hard to remember difficult things. People are more likely to use Google and other search engines to find answers to difficult questions rather than try to find the answers through existing knowledge. Could Google and other search engines be the easy way out? If people are assured that the information they need would be on the nest or saved for future reference, they will work less and try to commit it to memory less. How will this affect future generations if we only rely on in the Internet to solve all of our difficult problems?