Getting reminders on my smartphone is a lot more convenient than the way I used to do it back in the day — scribbling little notes to myself on random pieces of paper. But we are about to enter an entirely new tier of convenience.
When we all start walking around wearing those smart glasses, we won’t even need to look at phones. Reminders will be all around us. More importantly, they will be out in the world itself, tied to the physical people, places and things that they refer to.
You won’t need to worry anymore about remembering the name of that nice waiter in the restaurant, or how many minutes until the next bus arrives, or how much money you can safely spend on your credit card. Convenient reminders will be right there for you.
There is a possibility that this will all result in people being less self-sufficient. If you get a reminder for everything, then you might forget how to remember things on your own.
So we might all end up heading toward a memory dystopia, and we won’t even know it. Unless, of course, a reminder pops up to tell us.