Rob Moffat@robmoff

Augmenting Memory‘Ignite’ Presentation at Leweb 2012

Augmenting memory in the world of information overload

Rob Moffat: 80 new pieces of information an hour, just from the web

"When people expect to have future access to information, they have lower rates of

recall of the information itself and enhanced recall instead for where to access it."

How to handle it?

1. Self-improvement

2. Software

3. Human augmentation

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6 words / hour 36 words / hour

2. Software

Collective memory

3. Human augmentation

“The Entire History of You”

Challenges

• Retrieval – “that VC I saw in berlin last month”

• Recording signal vs. noise

• Remembering connections, not just facts

• How to forget?