New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to the Wired article with a droll account of how he was giving in to the outsourced brain. “I had thought that the magic of the information age was that it allowed us to know more, but then I realized the magic of the information age is that it allows us to know less. …” Continuing, “You may wonder if in the process of outsourcing my thinking I am losing my individuality. Not so. … It’s merely my autonomy that I’m losing.
