Digital amnesia: Are we handing our memories over to our handhelds?

Many people don’t worry about remembering phone numbers, special birthdays or anniversaries anymore; after all, they’re just a cellphone away. This phenomenon has been coined “digital amnesia” — the experience of forgetting information you trust a digital device to store and remember for you. Although digital amnesia has not been recognized scientifically yet, cognitive scientists […]

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