Your outboard brain knows all: "In fact, the line between where my memory leaves off and Google picks up is getting blurrier by the second. Often when I'm talking on the phone, I hit Wikipedia and search engines to explore the subject at hand, harnessing the results to buttress my arguments.
My point is that the cyborg future is here. Almost without noticing it, we've outsourced important peripheral brain functions to the silicon around us."
Shameless of Wired to rip off Cory Doctorow's coinage, "outboard brain", without attribution.
Posted by: Jay Cross at October 9, 2007 3:27 AMObviously Jay didn't read the article.
Posted by: Don Morrison at October 9, 2007 1:05 PMI've just bookmarked this article under the tag PLE. Yes, del.icio.us is part of my "outboard brain". Perhaps a PLE, which connects the relevant bits of your digital life and past for future retrieval, can be viewed as an outboard brain with a face.
-- Ron.
Posted by: Ron Lubensky at October 10, 2007 9:58 AM