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We are outsourcing memory to our phones — and slowly forgetting how to remember

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Nobody memorises phone numbers anymore. Nobody remembers directions. Nobody recalls facts because Google is always one tap away. Human memory is a muscle — if you never use it, it weakens. We are creating a generation that is entirely dependent on devices to remember basic information. What happens to our cognitive abilities when the battery dies or the network goes down?

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