Gregg Zachary has a short, Proustian think-piece on the "remembrance of everything past" in IEEE Spectrum:
“Information overload” once referred to the difficulty of absorbing intelligently the data produced by others. Now we face the peril of choking on our own. “Many of us no longer think clearly,” insists Silicon Valley futurist Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, because of our compulsive attachment to the digital world. In a new book, The Distraction Addiction (Little, Brown and Co.), Pang argues that humans can kick their habit with the aid of engineers who create “contemplative” computing experiences that enable humans to “restore focus and concentration.”
Alas, our distraction addiction could well worsen. In the future, while Google Glass and its inevitable copycats record the outer world, ever-cheaper sensors will chart our inner biological world.