Only one person in the crowd uses an old school, biological memory technique while watching the Pope's cortege.
As Hemingway put it long ago, describing the death of a matador in "Banal Story" (1926), "Man and boys bought full-length colored pictures of him to remember him by, and lost the picture they had of him in their memories by looking the lithographs."
Frankly speaking, external memory has been in use since the times of cave paintings. Now it just became more convenient and affordable.
Впрочем, девайс расширил функцию памяти. Возможность показать другим, недоступная внутренней памяти, составляет основную ценность памяти внешней.
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