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In the story “Shame and Forgetting in the Information Age” by Charles Baxter he leads the reader through why he believes that the over saturation of information we get today has a huge effect on our memory. The epigraph of this story, “we have transformed information into a form of garbage” by Neil Postman, lets us know right away how technology has changed who we are and how we are shaped by the Information age. When we are constantly bombarded with information we lose a lot of our own memories and this sometimes can result in shame. Baxter has chosen to break his piece into five parts to get his point across.
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In the story “Shame and Forgetting in the Information Age” by Charles Baxter leads the reader through why he believes that the over saturation of information we get today has a huge effect on our memory and how technology has taken the place of our own memories. “There is more information all the time. No one can absorb all the information. No one wants to. The day ends, not with physical exhaustion, but with data-fatigue or data-nausea.”(Baxter Pg.146) When we are constantly bombarded with information we lose a lot of our own memories and this sometimes can result in shame.
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