“We understand and remember less from a hyperlinked text, and we experience less emotional depth from a hyperlinked life.”
I was interviewing Amanda Palmer recently, and we got on to the subject of memory, the retention of memories, and the impact the internet has on our attention spans and what not. It’s a topic that interests me hugely, so when she said I should watch this Jonathan Safran Foer commencement speech at Middlebury College, I of course… forgot pretty much instantly. Then, while going through the copy of the interview today, I was reminded of it.
It’s great, check it out.