In the literate cultures, memory was not relied on as heavily due to the fact that there were now written documents. Memory was not destroyed, it was merely externalized by writing. He is not more lazy than his Greek counterpart. Today, the use of memory has been modified by the use of electronic media. Through the device of clickable maps, a reader can recover the rhetorician's words by selecting items within the electronic memory palace.
Electronic communication enables users to read, see, and listen to all sorts of documented works.
By clicking on highlighted words and pictures, the reader is automatically linked to other documents containing information on that particular topic. Works Cited Aristotle. J. I. Beare, trans. On Memory and Reminiscence. Allyn and Bacon, 1995.