Foer’s “The End of Remembering” contains a summary on the history of recording. In the early part of human history we had to put anything that we needed to bring up in our memory or else it would be lost forever. The more and more humans advanced, the more inventions of documentation we had. Not all things had to be remembered because of the ability to hold it permanently onto something else. Then when recording became more progressive we were able to nitpick what sections we actually need to retain. Information became organized and easier to get to therefore making it nonessential to cling on to. The early stages of remembering had to be done only by humans. The knowledge that was not written down became lost. It was not until the Greeks