"Ever since Mnemosyne, the mother of the muses, gave the wax tablet to mortals, memory, writing and technology have been interconnected. "

-- Carolyn Guertin

 

Three-Dimensional Dementia -- Note 2
______by Carolyn Guertin

 

2. Davida Charney argues that it is hierarchies, headings and chronologies that help us remember; we only remember things spatially when objects remain fixed. An alternating organization like hypertext, where readers switch their attention back and forth between items, is the most difficult to remember of all, and hypertext readers have been shown to easily lose track of their place in a network (Charney 242, 247, 249).

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