Now you come to mention it. 
The TV can send me to sleep. Googling stuff keeps me awake, food for the brain, gotta be good.
@butterscotch ,. Do you really think human lifespans will increase ??
Jesus, l hope not !! If it does then planet earth is doomed as far as biological life is concerned !!
What with human populations exploding ,and now refusing to die as well ??
On the brain issue, apparently humans allready have more than enough brain cells provided at birth,
And we only use a small percentage of them during our lives no matter how" brainy"we profess to be !
In theory we should not need “Google” at all ??
Donkeyman!
@d00d l tend to use “codeword” and & “suduko” for that dOOdy !!
I find googling boring untill the info comes up ??
Donkeyman! 
Well, it has over the last few hundred years, so it seems reasonable to think it will continue. Hopefully by the time overpopulation becomes a problem, people will have figured out the resource problems.
From what I’ve read, that’s actually a myth. People don’t actually have that much unused brain capacity, and if they did, they couldn’t access it anyway.
I read sometime ago that the increase in lifespan in the UK had flattened out and more recently that Covid19 had actually meant that in 2020/21 US life expectancy would actually decline.
The first one I saw graphs illustrating this flattening in the UK had started some years before but the second one might be speculation because I can’t remember the source so don’t know how reliable it was. Anyway even if it was true presumably it would only be a temporary glitch.
Yes, the rate of life expectancy in the US has been declining over the last several decades and 2020 had the highest rate of decline due to the pandemic. The declines had some to do with the high rate of drug overdose and homocides.
As you say, it’s probably a temporary glitch, but even if not, the increase in life expectancy in the rest of the world makes up for the declines in the western world.
@butterscotch So, is there a link between high birth rates and increasing life spans ??
And conversely, between low birth rates, and dropping life spans butter scotch ??
On the brain capacity issue you could be right about the are we using all of our brain question as
the information l used in my supposition that we don’t, was drawn from my own memory of what
l was taught back in 1948 !! And so is probably out of date ?? I tend to be a bit old fashioned and only
use Google as a last resort!!
However l believe my theory about Google. reducing our memory capacity over time bears
“thinking about”
Donkeyman!
It will just give another excuse to the can’t be arsed to be less arsed.
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