The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data t…

Douglas Rushkoff
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The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own ability to remember things. ✨ Douglas Rushkoff (2010). Program Or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age, p.33, OR Books
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The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own ability to remember things. ✨ Douglas Rushkoff (2010). Program Or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age, p.33, OR Books

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