Memory and media in the news:
this story from
The Guardian associates technological mediation with the erosion of memory:
First it was a search engine. Then it became almost synonymous with the internet. Now Google is a replacement for the ancient human faculty of memory.
Research by scientists at Columbia University has found that people are adapting their ability to remember because of the formidable power of search engines such as Google to remember things for them. In short, people no longer always need to know stuff; they just need to know where it can be found.
As we'll be discussing in class, this idea is not completely new. In fact, it goes all the way back to Plato...