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Gene Tracy

Gene Tracy is chancellor professor of physics at William & Mary, Virginia. He is the author of Ray Tracing and Beyond: Phase Space Methods in Plasma Wave Theory (2014). He blogs about science and culture at The Icarus Question.

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What Can We Afford to Forget If Machines Do Our Remembering?

By Gene Tracy | Published: April 19, 2019

Outsourcing our memories -- or actually forgetting once-vital skills that no longer matter in our daily lives -- has always been with humanity. But how does the drift to artificial intelligence reflect what's always been...

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