This is an interesting topic to me and there is an ongoing debate in my head as to what the actual power of carrying the worlds information (Google) in your pocket is. It seems to me that web search skills & technique are becoming an amplifier to intelligence. Although over reliance on unverified information on the web has catastrophic consequences, finding the right balance of internal or base knowledge combined with the ability to quickly take in and learn concepts through search will be the road to success for the next generation. (The article is about calculators and mathematics specifically, but I feel this concept applies in a much broader sense with web search) - Ross Miller