Rob Moffat presented on augmenting memory in an age of information overload. He noted that people now encounter around 80 new pieces of information per hour online. To handle this overload, Moffat suggested improving memory through self-improvement, software tools that collect information, and human augmentation. Some challenges of augmentation include accurately retrieving specific memories, distinguishing important information from noise, remembering relationships between facts rather than just discrete facts, and determining what to forget.

1. Augmenting Memory
‘Ignite’ Presentation at Leweb 2012
Rob Moffat
@robmoff

2. Augmenting memory in the world of
information overload

3. Rob Moffat: 80 new pieces of information an
hour, just from the web

4. "When people expect to have future access
to information, they have lower rates of
recall of the information itself and enhanced
recall instead for where to access it."

5. How to handle it?
1. Self-improvement
2. Software
3. Human augmentation

7. Confidential Copy

8. 6 words / hour 36 words / hour

10. 2. Software

13. Collective memory

14. 3. Human augmentation

20. “The Entire
History of You”

21. Challenges
• Retrieval – “that VC I saw in berlin last month”
• Recording signal vs. noise
• Remembering connections, not just facts
• How to forget?