Joshua Foer

When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose…

Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind’s eye. That’s an act of…

Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we…

Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions…

The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to…

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers…

We’ve outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer…

Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass…

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up…

Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate…

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity…