Communication No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand... Joshua Foer 29
Creativity What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so unlike any other... Joshua Foer 30
Trust We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as... Joshua Foer 28
Productivity One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more... Joshua Foer 31
