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)

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

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