[CFrance]

From the NYT Metropolitan Diary:

What we seniors need
are better internal retrievers:
Our information memories
aren’t gone; they’re merely buried
in the bowels of an old library
where instead of tapping
a few search engine keystrokes
we still have to fill out
a catalog call slip
which will then be sent down
to clerks scouring the stacks
for the desired item.

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by CFrance

From the NYT Metropolitan Diary:

What we seniors need
are better internal retrievers:
Our information memories
aren’t gone; they’re merely buried
in the bowels of an old library
where instead of tapping
a few search engine keystrokes
we still have to fill out
a catalog call slip
which will then be sent down
to clerks scouring the stacks
for the desired item.

And I have no doubt that at some point in time, maybe, sadly after we're all gone, a chemical will be developed that will give our memories that sorely needed update and reboot.

Or maybe it won't be a chemical. Perhaps a USB port will be wired onto our brains and installed in the side of our head into which something will be plugged in that will refresh our memories and clear our caches.