> And, why the scare quotes?

N=54, students and academics only (mostly undergrad), impossible to blind, and, worst of all, the conclusion of the study supports a certain kind of anti-technology moralizing want to do anyway. I'd be shocked if it replicated, and even if it did, it wouldn't mean much concretely.

You could run the same experiment comparing paper maps versus Google Maps in a simulated navigation scenario. I'd bet the paper map group would score higher on various comprehension metrics. So what? Does that make digital maps bad for us? That's the implication of the article, and I don't think the inference is warranted.