Thursday, March 17, 2011

Joshua Foer's Memory Palace

...with all the clamor of the information age, we don’t seem to be able to remember much at all — not how our sacred traditions were generated and passed down, not how great literature was learned and reimagined, not how, for millennia, an individual’s memory could determine his destiny. Indeed, we still seem unable to remember what we are doing in front of the fridge with the door open.

Read more: http://www.forward.com/articles/136210/#ixzz1Gs0RS000

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