#digital amnesia
Senwitt pages tagged digital amnesia — blog posts, answers, glossary terms, research, and more.
- blog
The Google effect and what it means for AI
The 2011 Sparrow et al. paper started the cognitive-offloading conversation in earnest. The 2024 meta-analysis sharpened the picture. The AI extension is the natural next step.
- glossary
Digital amnesia
Digital amnesia is the popular-press term for the Google effect — forgetting information you know you can retrieve later via search or AI.
- glossary
The Google effect (digital amnesia)
The Google effect is the tendency to remember WHERE information can be found instead of WHAT the information is. First named in a 2011 Science paper by Sparrow, Liu, and Wegner.
- route
Google effect & digital amnesia.
Full research-page treatment.