Human Intelligence Response
Digital amnesia is a situation where people become over-reliant on digital devices as a storage of valuable information. Should the digital source containing a person’s data be irreversibly damaged then that person would lose all that information. 90 per cent of us suffer from digital amnesia with more than 70 per cent of people not knowing their children's phone numbers by heart, and 49 per cent have not memorized their partner's number (Roberts).
Roberts argued that the Google Effect has made us worse at remembering events from our own lives (Roberts). We are more concerned with capturing the moment with a photo and forget to enjoy the event. She also adds that we are paying less attention to life itself as the
Digital amnesia is a situation where people become over-reliant on digital devices as a storage of valuable information. Should the digital source containing a person’s data be irreversibly damaged then that person would lose all that information. 90 per cent of us suffer from digital amnesia with more than 70 per cent of people not knowing their children's phone numbers by heart, and 49 per cent have not memorized their partner's number (Roberts).
Roberts argued that the Google Effect has made us worse at remembering events from our own lives (Roberts). We are more concerned with capturing the moment with a photo and forget to enjoy the event. She also adds that we are paying less attention to life itself as the