What Did You Have for Breakfast Yesterday? Ask Google
Memory is, well, so 1990s. Who needs it when we have Google, Siri and any number of services to help answer and recall everything we've ever perceived and wished to remember or wanted to know. Will our personal memories become another shared service served up from the "cloud"? From the Wilson Quarterly: In an age when most information is just a few keystrokes away, it’s natural to wonder: Is Google weakening our powers of memory? According to psychologists Betsy Sparrow of Columbia University, Jenny Liu of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Daniel M. Wegner of Harvard, the Internet has not so much diminished intelligent recall as tweaked it. The trio’s research shows what most computer users can tell you anecdotally: When you know you have the Internet at hand,…