In response to The Atlantic’s arti­cle, Is Google Mak­ing Us Stu­pid?, Dis­cover Magazine’s Carl Zim­mer argues that Google is actu­ally mak­ing us smarter thanks to the ‘extended mind’ the­ory—the idea that the mind exists not only in our­selves but is extended out to the tech­nol­ogy we use.

via Mind Hacks