But there is a danger here. “Those who celebrate the ‘outsourcing’ of memory to the web have been misled by a metaphor. They overlook the fundamentally organic nature of biological memory. What gives real memory its richness and its character, not to mention its mystery and fragility, is its contingency. It exists in time, changing as the body changes.”17 Where a computer takes in information and immediately stores it as data, the human brain continues to process that information and turn it into a form of knowledge.
