Let's do a quick test to see if you are losing your mind:

Do you know your significant other's phone number?

Do you even know your own phone number?

Are you increasingly googling facts because you don't trust your memory any more?

I can't find any figures suggesting what percentage of the population you are in if you can't remember your own number (58 percent don't know their own phone's make and model), but I know you're not alone. Like me, you are relying on memory chips and increasingly letting technology or search engines think for you.

And the thinking goes like this: What's the point of stuffing my head full of facts when they are available at my fingertips?

Why argue the facts if we can just go online and figure them out for sure?

What's the point of counting down the mathematical constant pi when computers can bench press far better than we will ever do?

Smartphones and cloud computing make checking facts and calculating an anytime-anywhere phenomenon.

This, you might think, would free up space on our own hard drives (the brain) to perform other intellectual workouts - though the science on this is fuzzy.

Why bother learning another language? How tedious. Though at an early stage, phone apps are acting as translation services, converting foreign spoken phrases into words I can understand, and vice versa.

Military apps are already mixing up man and machine, giving soldiers night sight, allowing helicopter pilots to literally fly by the "seats of their pants" by responding to computer generated wafts of air in their flight suits that mimic air currents, allowing them to control their crafts more intuitively.

Slowly but surely, we are becoming cyborgs - not the terminator type that pour minds into titanium bodies but rather adding bits, parts and even chemicals to our bodies so that we can hyperfunction.

Since we deal with computers so much, we are becoming computer-like.

This could mean that our information processing skills improve, IQ goes up, sensory-motor coordination improves and multitasking is enhanced.

It used to be that kids couldn't take calculators into math exams. In the future, kids will have access to computers in tests (if they don't already) because what we need to determine is how well the young individual can function, and our technology is part of this. We want answers, not questions.

Some people will point out that this seems to fly in the face of humanity (whatever that is).

But as Heidegger and others have pointed out, there is a "will to technology" that naturally frames the way we look at reality and, therefore, leads to the creation of more machines and further technology.

Facebook, Sina Weibo and other social networks change the way we think of our community, making it global rather than local. To some extent, we are our machines or software, and whether they're rewiring us or we programmed them is moot, since they are part of the same process.

When your life migrates online, and you can still process but your memory has glitches, it will only take a browse to remind you of what you did the previous day.

And I'm sure young adults remember their childhoods more these days because they have the videos and photos to remind them.

So perhaps we do not have to lose our minds but, rather, can retain them electronically.