The Lost Art of Memory. A commentary on novelty’s rise, memory’s fall, and what vanished in between:

as a people who have almost unending access to notepads, note apps, and voice and video recording, it seems reasonable for us to be a people who have let memory slide in favor of creativity … Yet this convenience likely comes at a cost—we may be losing access to a fundamentally different way of thinking and perceiving, one that emerges only through a deeper form of engagement with memory