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 we read a book we can often remember roughly on which pake we came across a certain piece of information but that's not necessarily the case with scrolling through it digital text this impacts our ability to memorize information. by computer computers need to compress data because their storage capacity is limited with humans the opposite is true the more contextual information we have about something the easier it is for us to recall it. some tech experts like nicholas