much as in the past and using sat navs means we don't have to rely on our sense of direction in the same way we did say thirty years ago and this all affects our brains. in practice smartphones and apps mean we no longer have to remember to share jewels addresses and such because out of vices do that for us this means we're storing less information but we're also practicing the act of memorizing less also has consequences. if i stop committing things to memory i will lose the ability to do so and that means no longer being able to process that information humans do more than just gather relevant information on the internet the difference between us and machines is still that we also have the ability to understand and process stored information to. our brains are especially good at retaining information particularly well when we can reference where we found it that's easier to do with analog sources than digital ones for example when