Human Memory vs Digital Memory

Human Memory

Historical Memoy

The historical memory is a memory that
people of the past has left us

Cristoforo Colombo

Diary of the discovery of America

Marco Polo

Milione

Diary of the journey
to Asia by Marco Polo

Example of necessity to
write for remember

Personal Memory

The personal memory is composed
by our memories

Super memory

Problem of remembering
every detail of his own life

Ability to recall information
with the influence of technology

Fleisure

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An example of how to store and
catalog information with the technology

Digital Memory

Different types of memory

RAM: Random Access Memory

Where the data required for execution programs are loaded. It's a volatile memory

Cache

It's integrated into the processor, it contains only the most frequently used data.

ROM: Read Only Memory

It contains the bios, or programs loaded during the
startup of the system

EPROM: Eresable Programmable
Read Only Memory

It is used in today's USB Drives, it can be ereased.

How do we use digital memory?

Nowadays we use digital memory to store all our information, from our dates to data of our credit card.