New Delhi, Nov. 15 -- Do you happen to remember your 16-digit credit card number? Or your friends' addresses? Are you quite sure of the birthdays of your loved ones?

If you're leaving it to digital aids to remember things for you, you're not alone. In our modern world, it has become second nature to rely on our devices as an extension of our brains. While convenient, it means we use our internal memory less and less.

And as the old saying goes: Use it or lose it.

It's natural to wonder why one should take the effort and strain the brain by trying to remember seemingly minor things. It's all just a click away, after all, and we're getting to be such experts at finding information in the blink of an eye.

But there's one important fact w...