Do I remember a lower percentage of the facts I have encountered in life than others? Almost certainly. But I also bet that I have encountered vastly more as a result.
> Google lets you actually find information rather than just wishing
you had it.
Correct. And that's a problem.
The "wishing you had it" part is actually really important.
Creativity and understanding isn't just assembling a jigsaw puzzle of
discrete information facts. Holding together a mental model, including
many partial and missing pieces of information, is how innovative
leaps occur.
A Google driven life, treading over popular, permitted pathways is
comfortable and convenient but requires only some small fraction of
the adult human brain. More is not necessarily more when it comes to
information.
https://imgur.io/pumgE
Do I remember a lower percentage of the facts I have encountered in life than others? Almost certainly. But I also bet that I have encountered vastly more as a result.