A. R. Luria gave us “S” in the Mind of a Mnemonist. “S” could remember extensive, random sequences of numbers years after he’d seen them. Yet, he was nearly socially illiterate. Now there is Gordon Bell and life logging. Bell endeavors to record every bit of data in his life (literally everything he sees and does and has seen and done) as an experiment in software development for people who might want to do the same. But do we really WANT to remember everything? Daniel Schacter reminds us that we’ve evolved to forget things for good reason…
