My friend and a very gifted writer and person Dr. T Rama Prasad has one of his articles published in The Hindu which can be seen below
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/open-page/article3340116.ece
He explains the term Google Effect where people are more and more using the ‘trans-active memory’ of Google / Internet rather than the embedded memory processing system each one is born with (bio-active memory). The paragraph from the article is interesting and forces introspection.
In the olden days, people used to gather information from friends and co-workers or classmates. Now, with this ‘Google effect,’ people are increasingly bypassing discussions with friends and colleagues. They are becoming more dependent on computers and getting isolated with decreasing personal dialogues. The trend is not to memorise data which are readily accessible on the Net but to utilise the blank brain for something more worthwhile.
This phenomenon is replacing a person’s circle of friends with the Internet. People are relying more on their computers as a form of ‘external memory’ as online information libraries ‘wired’ human brains. Some say that this state of being so ‘wired’ may have deleterious effects on society over the coming decades. Any novelty is met with suspicion, derision and resistance. While there is always a tendency to glorify a new tool, there is also a counter-tendency to decry it. Did not Socrates, in Plato’s Phaedrus, bemoan the development of writing, fearing that it would make people forgetful due to a lack of exercise to memorise? When the Gutenberg’s printing press arrived in the 15th century, did not the Italian humanist, Hieronimo Squarciafico, express concern that print material would weaken the minds through intellectual laziness?
Dr. Prasad then narrates a very interesting tale from his own experience which can be called as the ‘The Case of a Googled TB patient’.
5000 years back, Lord Vysadeva wrote a commentary on the Vedanta-Sutra called Srimad-Bhagavatam and it is a 18,000 verses epic and among many other things, the text makes some Kali-yuga prophecies.
1. Memory and Life-Span will be shortened in Kali-Yuga : a devolved age full of quarrel and hypocrisy
2. Sex will be the only glue of marriage – Dampatye rati eva hi kebalam
3. Kings and Administrators will be more like dacoits and they will exploit praja (every living being in the kingdom or state) that people will not be able to raise a family and under the botheration of high taxes and high food price, they will go to forest. kara-piditam gaccanti giri-kananam.
4. Religion will devolve into empty rituals and a man of knowledge will claim his thread only (brahmana : Brahma janiti iti brahmana )
5. Supply of grains, honey, fruits, sugar will be restricted and people will increasingly become meat-eaters and finally (as grains dwindle so will be animals) there will be a society of cannibals.
Now, we ask a question which was a statement in Dr. Prasad’s essay :
The trend is not to memorise data which are readily accessible on the Net but to utilise the blank brain for something more worthwhile
There are two questions hidden in the sentence above. First : What does a blank brain do ? Second : How to know what is that more worthwhile something ?
A considerable number of people watch porno in office / workplace waiting for mails or in between writing mails.
Answer to the second question is beyond speculation and we need guidance from superior source. Only information will not help.
This aspect is demonstrated by the case of googled TB patient mentioned by Dr. Prasad.
Freelancer's Freelancer 
A brilliant analysis of Dr. Ramaprasad’s article “The google effect may be good may be bad”
modern scientific developments are good for posterity.all things have a good and bad aspect. depends on how the user uses them. time is a constant limitation to human activities. so also the brain.but the brain in human beings still lies grossly under-utilised. nature has balances of its own kind. however, older traditions and values may tend to come back into society despite the modernisms.no one can deride modern developments outright. a certain level-headedness is however needed to be maintained by man in all his future endevours.it is better to align with nature and to always remember the creator at all times! man per se is weak and worthless and most of his achievements futile!
dr john celes