I’ve been curious whether the internet has changed the way human brains work for those who live in the connected world. It certainly seems like, at least in the long term, the ubiquitous availability of an omniscient search engine with a seemingly endless array of answers and how-to videos would create a different brain than the one created in a world where the answers and information were a bit harder to come by and a person might benefit from having stored that information rather than the method to find that information.
This article shows how Google and its algorithms have shaped the web, for better and worse, in the era of text search. What’s next?
