The Advantages and Disadvantages of the Shrinking Human Memory

Abigail Mandlin
5 min readApr 8, 2024
Are we already more machine than man?

I had a professor in graduate school assert that all people, in our current age, have already achieved the status of “cyborg,” by our widest definition.

At first, you may think this assertion is ludicrous on its face. But consider this: What is a cyborg? Dictionary.com offers this: “A person whose physiological functioning is aided by or dependent upon a…

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Abigail Mandlin

Cat-lover, MFA-haver, PNW-native. Author of Muses and founder of Heart on Our Sleeves Press.