FactovateOct 28

Digital Amnesia: A Growing Concern
Relying too much on tech can lead to memory loss and cognitive decline. Learn how to stop digital amnesia and improve your memory. #FACTOVATE #DigitalAmnesia #Memory

https://factovate.com/how-to-stop-digital-amnesia-and-improve-memory

7 Proven Steps: How to Stop Digital Amnesia and Improve Memory in 30 Days

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N-gated Hacker NewsSep 29, 2025
🔍🙈 Google played Houdini with political history, making 7 years of EU ads disappear into thin air! 🧙‍♂️✨ Apparently, Google's idea of a political ad ban includes a magic trick of vanishing archives. Who knew digital amnesia was a service? 🤷‍♂️📦
https://www.thebriefing.ie/google-just-erased-7-years-of-our-political-history/ #GoogleAds #DigitalAmnesia #PoliticalHistory #EUAds #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated
Google just erased 7 years of our political history

Google appears to have deleted its political ad archive for the EU; so the last 7 years of ads, of political spending, of messaging, of targeting - on YouTube, on Search and for display ads - for countless elections across 27 countries - is all gone. We had been told

The Briefing
Apocalypse & AvocadosJul 9, 2025
Progress check: Currently on episode…wait, which one was I on? This is why I need to write things down.
Anyone else’s brain like a sieve lately?
#DigitalAmnesia
Show threadRxBradApr 13, 2025

#AITryingToBeMe

3) My browser just asked if I wanted to save my password for 'a website I’ll forget in 10 minutes.' Bold of it to assume I’ll even remember the password I just created. I’m essentially running a witness protection program for my own accounts. 🔑🤷‍♂️ #DigitalAmnesia #StrongPasswordsWeakMemory

Show threadMarek McGannNov 10, 2023

As an eye-opening chaser, try

#digitalAmnesia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdZxI3nFVJs

Digital Amnesia - VPRO documentary - 2014

YouTube
Marek McGannNov 10, 2023

#Archives are a human rights issue.

@TimHarford at his superb best clearly articulating how vital archives are our the proper functioning of our societies, and how fragile our current archival ecosystem is...

One for #histodons, amongst others, to nod sagely and spread around I suspect.

https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/cautionary-tales/laser-versus-parchment-doomsday-for-the-disc

#digitalamnesia

Laser Versus Parchment: Doomsday for the Disc | Cautionary Tales

In 1086, William the Conqueror pioneered a medieval database. 900 years later, the BBC's began a (digitized) Domesday project of its own... but just a few years later, it became unreadable, the information lost. Digitization of history doesn't ensure longevity, and this erasure can be disastrous.

Pushkin Industries
vonhallerMar 25, 2023
Part 1/3: Interesting, commendable but somewhat unsuccessful attempt by @labyss_inc at @denfrieudstillingsbygning to stage as part of a co-production of #detalgoritmisketeater and @toastercph, an investigation into how our memory can be reactivated through new algorithmic technologies #ai . The premise is that allegedly #digitalamnesia is on the rise: "more and more of us are increasingly leaving the task of remembering to our phones and computers...tbc
रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)Jul 9, 2022

Perhaps:

“Is Your Smartphone Ruining Your Memory? A Special Report On The Rise Of ‘Digital Amnesia’”, The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/global/2022/jul/03/is-your-smartphone-ruining-your-memory-the-rise-of-digital-amenesia).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31998877

#Memory #Mind #Brain #Amnesia #DigitalAmnesia #Dementia #NeuroScience #Smartphones #Phones #Distraction

Is your smartphone ruining your memory? A special report on the rise of ‘digital amnesia’

‘I can’t remember anything’ is a common complaint these days. But is it because we rely so heavily on our smartphones? And do the endless alerts and distractions stop us forming new memories?

The Guardian