Interesting if somewhat overblown conceptualization. One note though... particularly calling out the author's paragraphs about how scarce or hard-to-find infor

Interesting if somewhat overblown conceptualization. One note though... particularly calling out the author's paragraphs about how scarce or hard-to-find information is at our fingertips, and how this supposedly extends our informational capability far beyond our ancestors. In a way, this has some truth to it. But if we look at historical patterns for memorization, rote knowledge, knowledge allocation and storage (even down to the keeping of commonplace books to write down significant information or quotations for later reference)... the relatively unaided human mind is capable of storing and organizing far more than most of us do. As another commenter put it, a lot of these cognitive tools are leaving our own skills highly atrophied or completely undeveloped. I'm as guilty of this as anyone, I like my Kindle, browse social media regularly, etc. But my ability to put coherent structured information down in essays is no greater than my ancestors, and in fact likely much shallower. And I just repurchased and reread a favorite book in hard-copy, and I think my recall of this novel will be far better with the spatial cues of physical pages, than it ever was on an infinite Kindle screen. And while my Evernote has functionally unlimited pages, I'd be proud to have half the usefulness of Milton's commonplace books, now catalogued in the British Library.