Dave Snowden is spot on with this thought I reckon:
I think one difference with this technology is that it is more natural, its fragmented nature matches the fragmented nature of our intelligence and memory structures, but critically it also allows us to augment our memories through the storage capacity, but also the networked social interaction of the net. In a sense it is less intrusive than the technologies which preceded it which changed the physical structure of our lives… the knowledge economy seems to be allowing us to rediscover more ancient forms of wisdom.
