Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

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By Joshua Foer

Foer went to cover the US Memory Championship as a journalist and came back a year later as a competitor, having trained with the mental athletes he had gone to write about.

Along the way he looks at what memory is, at the ancient technique of the memory palace, at a man who cannot form new memories and another who cannot forget, and at what a culture loses when it hands remembering over to its devices.

First published 2011