“In this way, we become part of a transactive memory system.”
“The experiment explores an aspect of what is known as transactive memory — the notion that we rely on our family, friends and co-workers as well as reference material to store information for us.”
“While the Web enables all sorts of other biases – it lets us filter news, for instance, to confirm what we already believe – the use of the Web as a vessel of transactive memory is mostly virtuous.”