Balázs Búzás

This last point gets at why the cloud and mobile, which are often thought of as two distinct paradigm shifts, are very much connected: the cloud meant applications and data could be accessed from anywhere; mobile made the I/O layer available everywhere. The combination of the two make computing continuous.

The problem with Krakauer’s view is deep and important. It is that competitive cognitive artifacts don’t just replace or undermine one cognitive task. They change the

cognitive ecology

, i.e. the social and physical environment in which we must perform cognitive tasks.

Complementary Cognitive Artifacts : These are artifacts that complement human intelligence in such a way that their use amplifies and improves our ability to perform cognitive tasks and once the user has mastered the physical artifact they can use a virtual/mental equivalent to perform the same cognitive task at a similar level of skill, e.g. an a

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Cognitive artifacts are artifacts that ‘maintain, display or operate upon information in order to serve a representational function’.