When I went to university and studied physics and maths, one of the things that we were taught that, unlike in areas like medicine, law, or history, where students need to memorize a lot of facts, the goal in physics is to remember how to get the information you need to solve a problem, rather than the actual information.
Great article, matches my personal experience... over the last 10-15 years I've always wondered whether my memory has become worse, but in the end it's just that I consume more information, remember less of it, but instead index where I can find it.
By the way, you might like the following article even though it's a bit dated 🙂 Search engine as a diagnostic tool in difficult immunological and allergologic cases: is Google useful?
Great article, matches my personal experience... over the last 10-15 years I've always wondered whether my memory has become worse, but in the end it's just that I consume more information, remember less of it, but instead index where I can find it.
By the way, you might like the following article even though it's a bit dated 🙂 Search engine as a diagnostic tool in difficult immunological and allergologic cases: is Google useful?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1445-5994.2008.01875.x