I think this is also related more with the un precedented proliferation of technology in our lives. With land based telephone we used to be pretty comfortable w

I think this is also related more with the un precedented proliferation of technology in our lives. With land based telephone we used to be pretty comfortable with remembering atleast a few contacts we frequently talked with.. with cellphones I dont think anyone bothers with that any longer. Same with anniversaries and reminders etc.. put it in an app and forget about it. The app will remind you when its time. Proliferation of these devices has led to another proliferation — ad based content and competition for attention. We are consuming just soooo much of content nowadays, the rate of data input has gone through the roof. And most of it is pure junk.. all the news, the tweets, the netflix/prime/Disney content etc that we consume— its probably overwhelming our brains. We are offloading all the important stuff to devices in return for trash that our minds find no value in. I feel this is making our memories more ephemeral and we are slowly moving from ours minds being long term stores of value to short term stores of junk. Its a behavior modification at scale that probably no one realizes is happening