Moonwalking with Einstein - Key Takeaway

Question 1

What has contributed greatly to the decline of the memory “muscle”?

Answer 1

“In the fifteenth century, Gutenberg came along and turned books into mass-produced commodities, and eventually it was no longer all that important to remember what the printed page could remember for you. Memory techniques that had once been a staple of classical and medieval culture got wrapped up with the occult and esoteric Hermetic traditions of the Renaissance, and by the nineteenth century they had been relegated to carnival sideshows and tacky self-help books—only to be resurrected in the last decades of the twentieth century…”

Foer, Joshua (2011-03-02T22:58:59.000). Moonwalking with Einstein . Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.