Who needs a good memory when there's Google?

[Commentary] In this technocratic age we have come to rely less and less on memory. In fact, we rely less on our own authority altogether. The future of everyday cellular is quietly moving beyond asynchronous communication to what mobile digerati are calling memory augmentation - an application for recording, organizing, and archiving the elements of your life and then creating sophisticated indexing taxonomies upon which to search and retrieve its details. "What was that cute song our toddler sang in the bathtub?" "Was that a hint of irony in your brother's wedding toast?" A Bluetooth-like appendage registers and compresses the days of our lives and holds them in cache until we need them again. With so many of us slave to tin can memory, our human capacity for identification is jeopardized. Because when we commit things to mind, we become the authors of experience. When we choose to remember, we relate to our most fundamental resource and, in so doing, achieve a unique and perfect balance between representation and meaning.