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Or when the Internet came and made memory kinda obsolete. Why remember facts if you can simply index them and then lookup on demand.

But now we delegate thinking itself, so I wonder what is left.

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The Internet in no way made memory obsolete. People who know things off the top of their heads are far more capable than people who have to look things up.

This is an age-old argument actually, the same one was raised when the printing press was invented and reading became a more generally available skill.

Merely leading to the upending of the political structure of most countries.

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