An interesting article about the notion of Intelligence in the Internet Age. According to this article in the internet age, it is not about how much data you have in the memory bank inside your brain; it is about how you can relate and analyze blocks of information. That is exactly what we do in Software Engineering by creating Entity & Relationship Diagrams.
Basically the brain of a smart person is not a hard drive; her/his brain is a large CPU and a large cache. In the Internet Age we do not need to use our brain as hard drive to store data. Now we have things such as google to do it for us.
I know our school system emphasizes a lot on using our brain as hard drive. All the hours we had to memorize, names, locations, poems, … I was thinking so what !!!
And those with good photographic memory would ended up with higher grades that those with lower memorization skills but more analytical ones would ended up with poor grades. Basically a show like “Who Wants to be a Millionaire ” is rewarding all the walking hard drives, not the walking processors.