Is the Internet ruining our ability to remember facts? If you’ve ever lunged for your smartphone during a bar argument (“one-hit father of twerking pop star”—Billy Ray Cyrus!), then you’ve no doubt felt the nagging fear that your in-brain memory is slowly draining away. As even more fiendishly powerful search tools emerge—from IBM’s Jeopardy!-playing Watson to the “predictive search” of Google Now—these worries are, let’s face it, only going to grow.
Super interesting article! IL transactive memory a lot - 90% of the interactions my family has are the sort of co-constructing memory that this article talks about.
Yeah, M and I do that reconstruction thing for trivia and only if both of us are blocked do we consult google. It feels like cheating otherwise. We’ve started to bring Nate into it because he’s crazy good at names, especially for a two year old.