https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/bhenderson/2015/01/23/digital-memory-initial-thoughts/ Education and Digital Cultures January 2015 Sat, 14 Mar 2015 18:32:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/bhenderson/2015/01/23/digital-memory-initial-thoughts/#comment-10 Sun, 25 Jan 2015 20:34:53 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/bhenderson/?p=69#comment-10 […] in various different posthumanism debates partiulary around Cyber-punk culture ideologies and digital memories.  After a Monday evening screening of Blade Runner, I was able to identify what constitutes […]

]]> https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/bhenderson/2015/01/23/digital-memory-initial-thoughts/#comment-8 Sun, 25 Jan 2015 09:48:56 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/bhenderson/?p=69#comment-8 Thanks for the comment, some key questions here, but ones which are very difficult to answer at this stage. There is a lot of speculation around ‘preserving’ mental processes through technology and ‘brain training’.

]]> https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/bhenderson/2015/01/23/digital-memory-initial-thoughts/#comment-7 Sat, 24 Jan 2015 09:30:05 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/bhenderson/?p=69#comment-7 There was a recent book review in the Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/11/nicholas-carr-the-glass-cage-review-automation-makes-us-stupid) that touched on this.
Assuming that our memory can be ‘trained’, and a quick search on Google Scholar supports this hypothesis, then I agree with you that our memory capacity is suffering. But, is this a bad thing if we are able to enhance an ability through technology? Or, thinking it through to the logical conclusion, will the lack of ‘memory exercise’ lead to increased rates of dementia in later life, or will the ability to relive our memories through recordings preserve our mental processes?

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