Transactive Memory

Here is a fascinating article about transactive memory and our handy devices.

I thought it would be informative to folks like me who spend their careers making devices interact with people in a more useful way. Apparently, people expect their devices to remember for them in a manner as intimate as our relationship with our spouses and other family members. We outsource our memory to free up more "space" for other cognitive functions.

Neat-o.

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