I was reading articles on WIRED today and found an interesting interview with Nicholas Carr, author of “Does IT matter?”.  He is saying that we are all becoming nodes for information - not actually having the info itself, but providing it from a source - i.e. Google.
I relate to this statement because I find myself not attempting to remember information that I have read at sometime; I know that I can get it online again quite easily and then I don’t have to put the energy into memorization. I think this might be not making me smarter, but quite the reverse.

This is the quote I like the most:

We’re transferring our intelligence into the machine, and the machine is transferring its way of thinking into us.