Clowes, Robert W.2019-01-032019-01-032012-12-019781908187116PURE: 10547774PURE UUID: 7f4a3b69-c566-475d-921c-8c556efe2e66Scopus: 84893179678ORCID: /0000-0003-2006-3917/work/84814835http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84893179678&partnerID=8YFLogxKhttp://www.aisb.org.uk/aisbpublications/93-aisb/publications/proceedings/91UID/FIL/00183/2013Recent years have seen an explosion in the production and use of technologies that allow us to record, store and recall ever-increasing amounts of information about our lives. Some welcome these trends as offering new possibilities for self-understanding and expression. Others think that things have already gone too far and worry deeply about what the future might hold. Does mem-tech really promise (or threaten) a radical change to the cognitive profile of human beings? If so, how are we to assess the possibilities and attempt to understand whether they offer a hopeful or dangerous turn in the human condition? This paper attempts to develop a balanced understanding of current trends in mem-tech and also consider some of its more probable future trends. In so doing it identifies four factors about the new memory devices: Capaciousness; incorporability; autonomy; and entanglement that suggest not just technical, but important psychological implications.101339357engArtificial Intelligenceconference objecthttps://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84893179678http://www.aisb.org.uk/aisbpublications/93-aisb/publications/proceedings/91