So much for the theory that internet browsing is bad for our brains. We've had so many articles of the Is Google Making Us Stupid variety of late that I was almost beginning to believe them.
Now we finally have an actual piece of research, based on evidence as opposed to the surely-it-must-and-isn't-it-awful-ism that seems to be the favoured brain activity of most press and pundits.
This first study to assess the impact of internet searching, published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, has concluded that