Rusted Lazy Brains.

Oh God Google! What is happening to me? I am all distressed, depressed and debilitated. Being omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent you are the only one who can help me out of this crisis.

10 yrs back, when I left my school, I did not need an organizer tool to save my friend’s and teacher’s contacts. I had them all scribbled on my cortex. Though we had a phone register, I always felt it easier to remember and recollect them than note it and then hunt it down.

The same year, I got my digital organizer. Gradually I started to make entries in the organizer. But those entries were exclusively meant to confirm in doubtful infrequent contacts.

2 years down the line, I got my first mobile phone. The first day itself, I transferred all the contacts to the mobile. And in another 1 year, “BHUM”, my cortical registry blew off.

To make thing much more easier, I got my personal computer with an Internet access. Days passed enjoying the trill of having the entire world at the tip of my finger. Soon, I didn’t have to remember anything because it is always there with you online when I needed. I only have to connect and ask.

Then came the Wiki revolution. The entire collaborative web 2.0 interface was tough to understand. But in the long run, I started to use it more than any other on-line service. Then things became much more complicated. Every new information I got, instead of registering in my mind, I kept adding it on Wikipedia.

Today, I don’t even know my own phone number. I have been trying to memorize it for the past 2 months and it looks near to impossible. Every time i need to mention my number to some one, i hunt it down my mobile contacts and read it out. 


My brain has turned chaotic and won't retain certain things. There is lots to remember in this world, but then, Internet retains them all. Why would I strain to memorize them when you can get it all in one click? 


Having gone through both these phase of life, I feels worse than surrendering to dementia. Or should I categorize it as a type of dementia itself. I don’t have an answer because Google, you do not seem to know it yet.