'Cognitive Offloading'

Science Daily: Cognitive offloading: How the Internet is increasingly taking over human memory

summary - Our increasing reliance on the Internet and the ease of access to the vast resource available online is affecting our thought processes for problem solving, recall and learning. In a new article, researchers have found that 'cognitive offloading', or the tendency to rely on things like the Internet as an aide-mémoire, increases after each use.