Memory isn’t as important as it once was. In the past, the best way to access knowledge was to have it. And it was difficult to acquire. I recall working on school projects with volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica spread across the kitchen table when I was a kid. Anyone remember combing through card catalogues?
Now, all you need is a laptop phone and the world is yours. I can’t tell you the number of times my friends and I have been arguing about something and just turned to our blackberries for the answer.
Today, instead of consuming knowledge in huge chunks anticipating what we might want later, we get it in bits and bytes as we need it.
There was one more point I wanted to make about this but I can’t remember what it was…
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