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Is Google Destroying Our Memory?
- FroshKiller 10y agoThe link to the paper seems to be dead, but I'm interested in reading more. Personally, I have a poor memory and have made use of what the post calls "transactive memory" (great to have such a perfect name for it) to compensate for years. I've never felt like I was more reliant on Google than on, say, my mother or my friends. But if you talk about the acquisition of knowledge rather than retention, Google is definitely a primary tool I'm very reliant on. There aren't many topics anymore that I started learning about by asking a friend or co-worker rather than gathering sources from Google first.
- unitedacademics 10y agoApologies. The link should be working properly now. Thanks for pointing that out. About the transactive memory, there is also a nice article, on scientific american magazine, about the topic: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-internet-has-become-the-external-hard-drive-for-our-memories/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-internet-has-b...
- FroshKiller 10y agoThanks for the further reading! I really appreciate it.