Do you think the fact that we always "google" things when we can't remember them, as opposed to waking up with the answer at 3 a.m., is somehow not exercising a part of our brain? Maybe we're supposed to work on it for a while...

You can cause a whole group of people to “mass-forget” a name or thing by not being able to remember it. Often, it seems more and more elusive as we attempt to extract it from our heads. Regardless of whether you continue to ponder it consciously, you brain will continue to work until it remembers it (3 a.m. or in the middle of a presentation). Now that we have access to information almost anywhere, are we, or our children not “exercising” an important part of our intellectual muscle? And, if so, at what consequence?