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Able to store millions of bits of data and retrieve them in microseconds, computers put human "short-term memoryw-which handles new in- formation and problem-solving-to shame. Technological advances are bound to make small computers as common as typewriters. Will hu- mans soon be able to leave all short-term memory tasks to electronics?
No, says Estes, a Harvard psychologist. Granted, short-term...