The
internet is fast eroding people's memories of world-changing events in
history, making them more forgetful as they increasingly bank upon
Google to provide the information, a new UK study has found.
The
study of 2,000 adults found less than half of people surveyed could
name the year when Princess Diana died, even though it happened as
recently as 1997.
Many respondents did not even
know the year in which the terror attacks on the World Trade Center
took place while many others were clueless about when the Berlin Wall
fell, the 'Metro' reported.
The important dates
of world-changing events in history are fast disappearing from the
memories of the internet generation, researchers said.
Majority
of the adults who took part in the survey said they made less of an
effort to remember things "because we can look them up" on the internet.
"The
internet could be changing the traditional way we remember and process
things - certainly compared to older generations," spokesman for Grant's
Whisky, which commissioned the survey, said.
The
most common date people remembered was the Battle of Hastings, while
the dates of the two world wars and England's World Cup win were also
ingrained in their memory.
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