Ok, if the article is right, then: - our minds don't bother to remember things when we know the information is stored externally and easy to access - given

Ok, if the article is right, then: - our minds don't bother to remember things when we know the information is stored externally and easy to access - given the aggressive way our minds exploit this, remembering must be expensive - given that we can now get by while remembering less than before - to what end can we put memory capacity we've now freed up? One answer might be "living longer". As our lifespans extend, we may find ourselves accumulating too much knowledge to quickly remember things when we need them. If we're able to conserve memory more during our early lives, we may be able to stave of senility longer. Or maybe we can put that capacity to other uses. Our brains are pretty adaptable, and maybe we can use some of it that was devoted to remembering facts and experiences to instead remembering skills or languages or thinking about the present.