We've forgotten to remember. Cognitive science has taught us that learning to retain information is easy, but that remembering to remember is hard. It started when we began to outsource what we previously were called to memorize to notes, books, and all the way to modern and contemporary technologies. We empty our brains as we fill the cloud with information and data. In the Art of Memory, Frances Yates describes how the ancient Greeks believed in the importance of a trained memory—vital to everyone before the invention of printing—and thus created an elaborate memory system based on a technique of... Read more →