The Guardian of All Things: The Epic Story of Human Memory

Sometimes a book ends up being even better than expected. That's how I felt about The Guardian of All Things.  I was expecting an analysis of how human memory works, but that was Micael S. Malone's starting point.  From simple memories, he moved into memory tricks, then writing, and eventually into the electronic resources which have allowed us to store simple facts we formerly needed to memorize, freeing our memories for more complex and interesting information. Like an episode of Connections without the puns (Malone mentions the show as one of his inspirations, and that he mapped out his book during a lunch with James Burke) The Guardian of All Things seamlessly linked apparently disparate events as it traveled through history.